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Tag Name "Atheism" (2509)

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
Voltaire
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Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.
Eugenie Scott
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.
Stephen Hawking
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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
Voltaire
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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
Voltaire
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire
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As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
Voltaire
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The son of God is the same as the son of man the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.
Voltaire
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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
Voltaire
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I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
W. C. Fields
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If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious.
Pat Robertson
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
James Russell Lowell
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
Andre Gide
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
W. H. Auden
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
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Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
W. Somerset Maugham
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I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.
Jerry Falwell
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job.
W. Somerset Maugham
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