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 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
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kids

• 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

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Yourself

• Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • Important
  • Help
  • Animal

• When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Live
  • Trying

• The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Ideas

• 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