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.
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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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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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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.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
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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.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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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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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.
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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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'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'
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The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
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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.
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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.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
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No loftier tribute can be paid to the most illustrious of all the benefactors of mankind than we pay to these unrecognized soldiers when we write above their graves this shining epitaph.
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It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.
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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.
