Atheism Quote by Pierre Bayle Download Open image “One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.” — Pierre Bayle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Believe Mad Magistrates Mankind Positive atheism Starks
“Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law to machinations!… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them. — George Mason Copy Share Image
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“In the matters of religion, it is very hard to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.” — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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