Atheism Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky Download Open image “Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.” — William Edward Hartpole Lecky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Birth Positive atheism Religion Terror
Terror must be attacked from where it originates. Otherwise, you will only be defending yourself against terror. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror. — Tzachi Hanegbi Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ...… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“One of the great differences between childhood and manhood is that we come to like our work more than our play. It becomes to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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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