Positive Atheism Quotes - senQuotes.com

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Religion is a collective insanity.

Mikhail Bakunin

Authors on Positive Atheism Quotes: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Luther Burbank Robert Green Ingersoll Emily Dickinson Frank Zappa Charles Bradlaugh Voltaire Lucretius Thomas Jefferson Lord Byron Francis Crick Algernon Charles Swinburne Maynard James Keenan Joseph Stalin Emile M. Cioran Gerhard Tersteegen Ivan Turgenev William Edward Hartpole Lecky Mikhail Bakunin Stephen Reinhardt Bill Vaughan Julian Huxley Emile Zola Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Henry David Thoreau George Carlin William Shakespeare Alfred Goodwin John Stuart Mill Thomas Paine Jerry Falwell Salman Rushdie Louis Aragon

2.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Joseph Stalin

3.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

Nel Noddings

4.

Heresy makes for progress.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

5.

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

Frank Zappa

6.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Francis Crick

7.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Voltaire

8.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

Gerhard Tersteegen

9.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Simone de Beauvoir

10.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

Maynard James Keenan

11.

God is man idealized.

Amiri Baraka

12.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell

13.

Science is the only savior.

Luther Burbank

14.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian Huxley

15.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Frank Zappa

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Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

17.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Luther Burbank

18.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

John Keats

19.

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Robert Green Ingersoll

20.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Denis Diderot

21.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

22.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

23.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Thomas Paine

24.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

John Osborne

25.

We created god in our own image and likeness!

George Carlin

26.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Victor J. Stenger

27.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Henry David Thoreau

28.

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

Lord Byron

29.

A mere society form of Atheism.

Charles Bradlaugh

30.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Emily Dickinson

31.

I think it's a bit excessive.

Stephen Reinhardt

32.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Luther Burbank

33.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

Lord Byron

34.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

William Shakespeare

35.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Salman Rushdie

36.

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

Robert Green Ingersoll

37.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

Luis Bunuel

38.

It is like confessing to a murder.

Charles Darwin

39.

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Luther Burbank

40.

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

41.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

42.

What can I hope when all is right?

Voltaire

43.

The supernatural does not exist.

Camille Flammarion

44.

The temerity to believe in nothing.

Ivan Turgenev

45.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Archibald MacLeish

46.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Henri Frederic Amiel

47.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

48.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Emile Zola

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So much wrong could religion induce.

Lucretius

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Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Robert Green Ingersoll