Paul Bloom Quotes
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.Paul Bloom
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson -
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis -
If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
Campbell Scott -
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler -
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
Pat Buckley -
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. Joshi
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu -
I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian Mcewan -
Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams -
The lower income individuals, under any Republican proposal, at least that I have seen, are real losers in the framework because there is not enough subsidy, not enough assistance, for them to realistically participate in the market. Particularly if you halt or rollback the Medicaid expansion, which is for the lowest income workers.
Kathleen Sebelius -
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
Jodi Picoult
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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Marian Seldes -
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Denis O'Hare -
Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.
Bennet Omalu -
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
James Buchan -
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
Bob Newhart -
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Patton Oswalt
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No one ever dies an atheist.
Plato -
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
Anton Chekhov -
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
Andrew Solomon -
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.
Paul Bloom