Atheism Quotes - Page 15

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

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Blame is for God and small children.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.