Atheism Quotes - Page 25

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.