Atheism Quotes - Page 38

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

A functioning police state needs no police.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Religion is all bunk.