Great Quotes:
These are simply pasted from various web sites, they are in no particular order and may be repeated. policy
Sources of Quotes:
-From Atheists.com
"The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble." [Carl Sagan, A&E Biography interview]
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it." [Kenneth V. Lanning, Supervisory Special Agent at the Behavioral Science Institution and Research Unit of the FBI Academy, from The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan]
"Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll to to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!" [George Carlin, on Politically Incorrect, May 29, 1997]
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." [Thomas Jefferson, in "Toward the Mystery"]
"It ain't
the parts of the Bible that I can't understandthat bother me, it is the parts
that I do understand."
[Mark Twain]
"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." [Woody Allen]
"The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances, be made subservient to the vilest of purposes." [George Washington]
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." [James Madison, 1803]
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." [James Madison, 1803]
"I want nothing to do with religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul. To attain this, I would put priests to work, also, and turn the temples into schools." [Jawaharlal Nehru]
"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer." [Bertrand Russell]
"I would
love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,
feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe
that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert
an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful
thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral
depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories
for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our
vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day
for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
[Carl Sagan, 1996 in his article "In the Valley of the Shadow" Parade
Magazine]
-From Somewhere amid the Ideosphere
"Snatches of information that leap from mind to mind, contagious, like a melody that wells up in the reveries of a solitary songwriter till it seizes the brain of a singer, and then infects the consciousness of millions; or a scientific concept that starts as a vague glimmer in one researcher's thoughts, and ends up with a whole school of adherents." (Howard Bloom)
"WWJD - WHO WANTS JELLY DONUTS" - bumper sticker
"The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously." [Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman and Dukas, 1946]
"If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?" [Albert Einstein, "Out of My Later Years"]
"[My] deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books." [Albert Einstein, as quoted in Einstein, History, and Other Passions, p. 172]
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them." [Steve Eley]
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency." [Albert Ellis]
"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, Then how come evil in the world?" [Epicurus, 350-?270 BC]
"We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake." [Catherine Fahringer]
from our favorite "Christian Leaders": (words of stupidity)
"Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America." [Jerry Falwell]
"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters." [Jerry Falwell]
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being." [Jerry Falwell]
"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that *tolerates* homosexuals." [Rev. Jerry Falwell, 1993]
"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." [Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina]
"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith." [Catholic Church's decision against Galileo Galilei]
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass." [Senator Barry Goldwater] :)
"Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives." [Barry Goldwater, 1981 speech]
"When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell "Stop!" to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind. Then recite a portion of the Bible or sing a hymn." [Mormon _Guide to Self-Control_]
"Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established." [Ludwig Feuerbach, "The Essence of Christianity" (1841)]
"Atheism has one doctrine: To Question
Atheism has one dogma: To Doubt
The Atheist Bible has but one word: THINK." [Emmet F. Fields]
"Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas" [W. C. Fields]
"Christian biblical theology must recognise that its articulation of anti-Judaism in the New Testament ... generated the unspeakable sufferings of the Holocaust." [Dr. E. Florenza (Prof. of New Testament Studies) & Dr. D. Tracy (Prof. of Philosophical Theology), "The Holocaust as Interruption" (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, Ltd., 1984).]
"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world." [William Floyd, "Christianity Cross-Examined"]
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible." [George W. Foote]
"Q. Where does Jodie Foster stand in the debate between science and faith?" "I absolutely believe what Ellie believes - that there is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we just don't know any better." [Jodie Foster, interview with Dan McLeod, "Foster Makes Contact With Sagan" published in Vancouver's Georgia Strait July 10, 1997 issue, on her role as Dr. Eleanor Arroway in the film "Contact"]
"The atheist bashes all religions whilst the theist bashes all but his own, upon which he lavishes great care in case it should come in contact with reality." [Gully Foyle]
"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever." [Sigmund Freud, letter to Charles Singer]
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." [Sigmund Freud]
"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be." [Sigmund Freud]
"I turned to speak to God/About the world's despair;/But to make bad matters worse/I found God wasn't there." [Robert Frost (1874-1963)]
"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment." [Galileo Galilei, "The Authority of Scripture in Philosophical Controversies"]
"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives." [Mohandas Gandhi (Young India, 1927)]
"Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit." [Helen H. Gardner]
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." [Bill Gates]
"I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe." [Murray Gell-Mann, "Quark and the Jaguar"]
"All in all, I can't say I believe in god. If, in fact, I ever find out that he does indeed exist, I think I'll stay away from him, because if he's responsible for half the things he gets credit for, he's got to be one mean son of a bitch." [Peter Gether, _A Cat Abroad_, pp. 89-90]
"God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save German." [Hermann Goering, from Louis L. Snyder, "Hitler's Elite, Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen", Berkley Books, 1990]
"I'm thankful I didn't believe in God, because it would have been another thing for me to conquer." [Kim Goldman is quoted, in reference to her brother Ron Goldman's murder]
"God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist." [Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) French novelist, critic, philosopher]
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