“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” MenGivingReasonSuccessReligionLostAtheismWasteArgumentReasonableTyrantsQuartersHumaneReasonable Man Book:The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835 Source: The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835
“Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.” LooksFactsEvilCitiesBreakAtheismFoolKingsWasteBuiltLuckLaysCalmDivinityGood And EvilFraudDeceivingOathPiousFablesCredence Author:Euripides
“Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.” LittlesStatesPoorHalfPovertyAtheismWorstWasteAdvantagePositive AtheismBasketsLittle Money Author:George Holyoake
“Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.” SeemsAtheismWastePositive AtheismAstronomyInstance Author:Richard A. Proctor
“If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.” IfsNeedsDoeHelpingEnergyAtheismWasteInfinitePositive AtheismDefense Book:Miscellany Source: Miscellany
“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.” MenPersonsMomentsBeliefWaterPrayerCitiesHeardAtheismSafeWasteMen And WomenSafetyRisingCompassionateNew OrleansElderlyHurricanesKatrinaOmnipotentAtticsOmniscientHurricane Katrina Author:Sam Harris
“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.” ReasonPlayAtheismObjectsWasteAttackingRationalism Author:Isaac Asimov
“Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.” WantScienceReligionAtheismProveWasteEvidenceAtheistMy TimeSuspectsAgnosticAgnosticismScience ReligionWasting My Time Author:Isaac Asimov
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.” WantYearsLongScienceFeltAtheismProveWasteLong TimeEvidenceAtheistMy TimeSuspectsHumanistAgnosticAgnosticismWasting My Time Author:Isaac Asimov
“There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.” IfsBelieveReasonWould BeReligionAtheismWasteJokesProportionTragicNo ReasonWasting TimeCosmicGod ExistsWaste Of Life Author:Richard Dawkins