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| "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." Douglas Adams Quotes |
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| "I hope I never get so old I get religious." Ingmar Bergman Quotes |
| "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| "Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." Chapman Cohen Quotes |
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| "Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
| "The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." Stephen King Quotes |
| In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – ‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| "The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." Brennan Manning Quotes |
| band: dc Talk; album: Jesus Freak; from the song "What If I Stumble?" Brennan Manning Quotes |
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| The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes |
| I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider Quotes |
| The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
| I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges Duhamel Quotes |
| I'm a born-again atheist. Gore Vidal Quotes |
| I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Henny Youngman Quotes |
| Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun Quotes |
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| An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan Quotes |
| I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard Quotes |
| I’m the world’s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you’re not in love with. Lisa Williams Quotes |
| I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes |
| I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel Quotes |
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| It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries Quotes |
| When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" Quentin Crisp Quotes |
| Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins Quotes |
| You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess Quotes |
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| Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately. Scott Adams Quotes |
| Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire Quotes |
| How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? Woody Allen Quotes |
| If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen Quotes |
| To <b>you</b> I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen Quotes |
| It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other. GK Chesterton Quotes |
| If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt Quotes |
| Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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| The worst moment for the athieist is when he feels thankful and has no one to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes |
| A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist? Chris Bowyer Quotes |
| If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. GK Chesterton Quotes |
| An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. Franklin Jones Quotes |
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| An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. Fulton J. Sheen Quotes |
| The atheist has no hope. J.F. Clarke Quotes |
| Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. Francis Bacon Quotes |
| To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| A thorough reading and understanding of The Bible is the surest path to atheism Donald Morgan Quotes |
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| Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion Edmond and Jules De Goncourt Quotes |
| If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt Quotes |
| It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so Ernestine Rose Quotes |
| I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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| After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| Atheism is a non-prophet organization George Carlin Quotes |
| I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen Roberts Quotes |
| There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes James Morrow Quotes |
| To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd Voltaire Quotes |
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| A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism Dion Fortune Quotes |
| Atheist: A person who believes in one less god than you do Donald Morgan Quotes |
| He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. George Orwell Quotes |
| I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes |
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| In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. Jonathon Miller Quotes |
| Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power Plato Quotes |
| If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color Mark Schnitzius Quotes |
| I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. A. Whitney Brown Quotes |
| I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes |
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| Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence George Jacob Holyoake Quotes |
| No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. George Bush Quotes |
| My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Quotes |
| The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition George Herbert Quotes |
| There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. Plato Quotes |
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| I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi... Is there some kind of community service I can do? Mark Maron Quotes |
| Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself Miguel de Unamuno Quotes |
| God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. A. A. Milne Quotes |
| No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism Annie Besant Quotes |
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| If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. Denis Diderot Quotes |
| The atheist has no hope James Freeman Clarke Quotes |
| In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison Quotes |
| To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny Joseph Addison Quotes |
| Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding Plato Quotes |
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| It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. Ovid Quotes |
| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev Voltaire Quotes |
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| Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. Dennis Prager Quotes |
| "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813]. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God Tom Stoppard Quotes |
| Atheism is the last word of theism Heinrich Heine Quotes |
| I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles Quotes |
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| An atheist is a guy who watches a NĂ´tre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i Francis Bacon Sr. Quotes |
| Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant Antonio Machado Quotes |
| Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion. Wilhelm Stekel Quotes |
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| Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| We're not trying to attack Christians or attack anyone. We're trying to create tolerance for atheism. Ryan Walker Quotes |
| Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way. Joe Orton Quotes |
| the gospel of Christian atheism. John Robinson Quotes |
| The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. Lord Kelvin Quotes |
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| If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or a Ludwig Feuerbach Quotes |
| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. Francis Bacon Quotes |
| It takes a lot of thinking to get to the point where you don't believe, Atheism is a head thing. Women might be more inclined to be involved in something rather than to sit around and talk and talk. Arthur Jackson Quotes |
| Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. Stanley Kauffmann Quotes |
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| By 18 I was agnostic, then I became atheist. I try to work for secular humanism and atheism because I want to do what is needed to save humans from all the stupid stuff religion is doing. Greg Swartz Quotes |
| Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. Steven Weinberg Quotes |
| Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. Israel Zangwill Quotes |
