Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Born

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Gore Vidal

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Hu Shih

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Robert Lewis

It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard Dawkins

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Virginia Woolf

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Roger Ebert

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

Cotton Mather

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Anne Rice

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

J. C. Ryle

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Georges Bidault

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

Georges Bernanos

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

George Bernard Shaw

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

Gerry Spence

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Jack Kirby

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Ricky Gervais

Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.

Thomas Hobbes

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Robert Browning

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Socrates

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Eugenie Scott

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

Francis Bacon

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.