Atheist Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheist Ignorance Leader Leadership Purpose Religious Religious leaders
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it is unconscionable… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone.” — F. Lee Barham Copy Share Image
Religion is always in danger of growing apart from the people when its leaders forget to reflect carefully on their own behavior and come… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson 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
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image