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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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
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… they believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…
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So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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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.
