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“If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!”
~ Clark Adams
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“I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
~ Douglas Adams
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
~ Douglas Adams
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“When a Life of Brian comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of van Gogh, it will be a huge step.”
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.”
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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“Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
~ Isaac Asimov
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
~ Isaac Asimov
“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
~ Isaac Asimov
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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
~ Lenny Bruce
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“Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here).”
~ Richard Dawkins
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“If you are in possession of this revolutionary secret of science, why not prove it and be hailed as the new Newton? Of course, we know the answer. You can’t do it. You are a fake.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“It is an article of passionate faith among “politically correct” biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“…it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won’t know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
~ Richard Dawkins
“There’s this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.”
~ Richard Dawkins
“With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns.”
~ Richard Dawkins
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“I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.”
~ Daniel Dennett
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“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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
“Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“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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“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities.”
~ Christopher Hitchens
“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism… is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don’t think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.”
~ Christopher Hitchens
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“Christianity ist the most perverted system that ever shone on man.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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“You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend”
~ Richard Jeni
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I’ve always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I’m still working on it.
~ Penn Jillette
If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
~ Penn Jillette
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“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.”
~ Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
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“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
~ Delos B. McKown
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“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
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“We are atheists who look on beauty and complexity and awesome immensity and shout out, “There is no god!” and we are glad.”
~ PZ Myers
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“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.”
~ Gene Roddenberry
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“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.”
~ Salman Rushdie
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
~ Salman Rushdie
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Niemand tötet für eine Sache, an die er nicht glaubt.
~ sapere aude
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
~ Seneca the Younger
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“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail,
not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
~ Baruch Spinoza
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“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
~ Jon Stewart
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“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive…but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
~ Mark Twain
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“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”
~ Voltaire
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“Ein freier Mensch muß es ertragen können, daß seine Mitmenschen anders handeln und anders leben, als er es für richtig hält, und muß sich abgewöhnen, sobald ihm etwas nicht gefällt, nach der Polizei zu rufen.”
~Ludwig von Mises
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“You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.”
~ Richard A. Weatherwax
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“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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