Best Positive Atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.”

Ifs Years Firsts Has Beens Made Character Use Remember Moral Atheism Honest Assuming Details Following Positive Atheism Honestly Code Revising

Author:Mark Twain

“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”

Character Fall Atheism Destruction Positive Atheism Suspicion Disintegration

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.”

Should Years Fall Voice Atheism Silent Sorry Positive Atheism Mistaken

Book:The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.”

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Author:Steven Weinberg

“[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.”

World Religious Atheism Dangerous Positive Atheism Adversaries

Author:Steven Weinberg

“I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!”

Enjoy Atheism Meetings Positive Atheism Invocation

Author:Steven Weinberg

“The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.”

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Author:Steven Weinberg

“I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.”

“I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.”

Thinking Want Should Children Parent Atheism Positive Atheism Ignorant

Author:Frank Zappa

“Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?”

Shows House Atheism Positive Atheism Ems

Author:Frank Zappa

“The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.”

Years Age Lasts Next Dark Atheism Election Foundation Positive Atheism Dark Ages

Author:Frank Zappa

“Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.”

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Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“Information doesn't kill you.”

Atheism Information Positive Atheism

Author:Frank Zappa

“You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.”

Might Causes Deals Atheism Happenings Shots Positive Atheism Digging

Author:Frank Zappa

“Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.”

Long Causes Atheism Murder Positive Atheism Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Frank Zappa

“The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.”

Whole Universe Atheism Serious Jokes Positive Atheism

Author:Frank Zappa

“Well Mike, I'm abnormal.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.”

Giving Religious Effort Greater Atheism Reflection Satisfaction Positive Atheism Portions Religious Freedom

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.”

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Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?”

Two States Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Establishment Infallibility

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.”

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Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814

“Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.”

Atheism Argument Positive Atheism Preserves Purity Ridicule

Book:The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government, with an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard

Source: The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government, with an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard

“I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.”

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Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.”

Giving Christian Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Handle Sufficient Revelations Dogma Sects

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.”

Giving Moments Able Pain Lying Atheism Give Me Various Positive Atheism Priests Not Afraid Pious Batteries Whining Hypocritical

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

“Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.”

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Book:Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

Source: Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

“In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826

“The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.”

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Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.”

Doe Matter Speak Church Atheism Positive Atheism Church And State Separation Between Church And State

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.”

“... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.”