Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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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
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Fight
  • Name

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • You
  • Years
  • Atheist

• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Want
  • Words
  • Woman

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

  

  John Adams
  • Hair
  • Hurt
  • Atheist

• 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
  • Great
  • Book
  • Atheist

• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  

  James Buchan
  • Support
  • Atheist

• 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
  • People
  • Bad
  • Religious

• I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

  

  Alex Clare
  • World
  • Parents
  • Spiritual

• Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

  

  Amber Heard
  • God
  • Believe
  • Atheist

• 'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'

  

  Christopher Voss

• The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

  

  Frank Waters
  • Desert

• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Moral
  • Atheist

• An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

  

  Francis Thompson
  • Atheist

• Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Knowledge

• For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Character
  • Mice
  • Epiphany

• I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn't a lot of room for anyone else.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up

• It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Justice
  • Prove
  • Guilt

• I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Atheist