Atheism Quotes - Page 33

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

The atheist has no hope.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness.

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

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

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.