"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

Froude, James A. on Humankind
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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Roberts, Steven H. on Atheism
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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Dawkins, Richard on Atheism
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"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

Anonymous on Atheism
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."

Anthony, Susan B. on Atheism
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"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Weinberg, Steven on Atheism
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Abbey, Edward on Atheism
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"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."

Asimov, Isaac on Atheism
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

Seneca on Atheism
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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

Shaw, George Bernard on Atheism
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Einstein, Albert on Atheism
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"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."

Asimov, Isaac on Atheism
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"You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate."

Weatherwax, Richard A. on Atheism
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"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?"

Russell, Bertrand on Atheism
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"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Atheism
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"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on Atheism
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"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

Roddenberry, Gene on Atheism
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"Fear is the foundation of most government."

Adams, John on Government
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus on Atheism
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"People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)"

Adams, Douglas on Atheism
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"I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose"

Darrow, Clarence on Atheism
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"The American form of government is the worst form of government in the world, except for every other form of government that has been tried."

Mashak, Don on Government
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."

Shaw, George Bernard on Atheism
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on Atheism
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"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk."

Edison, Thomas A. on Atheism
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"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence."

McLeod, Doug on Atheism
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Ignorance
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"Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant."

Proverb on Ignorance
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Ignorance
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on Ignorance
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"Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend."

Unknown, Source on Ignorance
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Forgiveness
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"“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” "

Robinson, Jackie on Life
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"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."

Einstein, Albert on Service
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Rohn, Jim on Value
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"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on Influence
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Coolidge, Calvin on Honor
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

Beauvoir, Simone De on Service
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"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on Critics and Criticism
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"Only sick music makes money today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Music
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