The Best of Positive Atheism!
"It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously."
- Douglas Adams
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits."
- Dan Barker
"A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?"
- Francis Crick
"I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil."
- Clarence Darrow
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
- Albert Einstein
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
- Gandhi
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
"Who can overestimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate, and civilize mankind?"
- Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams... what has no meaning admits no explanation."
- Thomas Jefferson
"What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
- Abraham Lincoln
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
- H.L. Mencken
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
- George Orwell
"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
- Bertrand Russell
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
- Carl Sagan
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also believed the world was flat."
- Mark Twain
"Nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now."
- Eddie Vedder
"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
- Oscar Wilde
"Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy."
- Frank Zappa
- Douglas Adams
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits."
- Dan Barker
"A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?"
- Francis Crick
"I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil."
- Clarence Darrow
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
- Albert Einstein
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
- Gandhi
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
"Who can overestimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate, and civilize mankind?"
- Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams... what has no meaning admits no explanation."
- Thomas Jefferson
"What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
- Abraham Lincoln
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
- H.L. Mencken
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
- George Orwell
"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
- Bertrand Russell
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
- Carl Sagan
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also believed the world was flat."
- Mark Twain
"Nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now."
- Eddie Vedder
"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
- Oscar Wilde
"Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy."
- Frank Zappa
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