Atheism Quotes - Page 48

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

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

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

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.