favorite atheist quotes

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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on February 27, 2011 at 4:50pm

"Faith is the greatest vice; commonly mistaken for righteous virtue"

*Will Faithless Sophia

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Permalink Reply by chris robinson on October 29, 2011 at 5:23pm

My response to the morons who say I have faith. Yeah, a Fictional Apparition In The Head, because that's all it is!

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Permalink Reply by Crazy Cat Lady on February 28, 2011 at 7:48pm

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”- Voltaire

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Denis Diderot

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Permalink Reply by Idaho Spud on January 28, 2012 at 11:11am

Love those quotes!  Thanks  C C Lady.

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Permalink Reply by Corey K on March 1, 2011 at 9:52pm

Odd Crazy Cat lady as I have heard that last quote attributed to Mary Wollstencraft

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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on March 2, 2011 at 11:05am

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
- Albert Einstein

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
- Mikhail Bakunin

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on March 2, 2011 at 12:08pm

Take that Zeno I can quote myself! In other news, "We are prisoners of literature and of the classics, doomed  forever to be defined in context with those who came before us" I don't remember who said that but it is so very true...  For the average person who sadly happens to be religious I would go even further and say that one book in particular frames their entire lives, and they are doomed to wander within said books 'parameters.' Kind of like when the Moriarty AI hologram in star-trek wanted to see the absolute reality but was tricked into exploring an artificial universe.

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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on March 2, 2011 at 8:53pm

"A man is successful if he does what he wants each day," I don't know who said or if I remember it correctly but I couldn't agree more, the whole success = money and time = money paradigm is ridiculous.

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Permalink Reply by Crazy Cat Lady on March 3, 2011 at 7:02pm

Well what the actually quote is "Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois."

Translation

"And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
For want of a rope, to strangle kings"

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
Poésies Diverses, “Les Éleuthéromanes” (1875)

However, Jean Meslier (15 January 1664 – 1729) might have said it first, but it not verified.

Now I have also proven that I am a total nerd :)

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 3, 2011 at 7:14pm

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able, and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able, nor willing?
Then why call him God?

~Epicurus

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Permalink Reply by David D Crutcher on March 3, 2011 at 7:44pm

Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company ~ Mark Twain

 

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Permalink Reply by Brian George on March 3, 2011 at 8:34pm

I Don't know who said it, but it's funny....

 

When I was young I prayed to god for a bicycle, then I learned god doesn't work like that, so I stole a bicycle and prayed to god for forgiveness.

 

 

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