Tom Lehrer Quotes
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
Quotes to Explore
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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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.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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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.
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Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
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If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
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Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
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It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.
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No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
