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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standards and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
Maya Angelou
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy. Solomon Northup Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happned to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell
As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.
Robert Plant
I've seen the light around the bend it only leads closer to the end. Anton Toth Some asked me the meaning of life once, I once thought I knew it but my answer got clouded by life. Anton Toth There is no shame in defeat as long as the spirit in unconquered.
Fenix
I do not know what the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge that for the most part the word "Gods" has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible; As soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his Gods... When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon... Does he, in fact, do anything more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has ben accustomed to listen with reverential awe?
Paul Dietrich, Baron von Holbach - Systeme be la Nature, London
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. Robert G. Ingersoll In fear of death we all try to beat time, to outrun it with doctors and technology. But the reality of it all is that there is only one place where time has no meaning and the predator has not teeth. The irony is that place is heaven and the only way to get there is to die. We actually fear what we want most, Death. Lou Burr Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. Peter T. Mcintyre My atheism is true to the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Between the tides and double tides, she'd always stop to dream.
Beth Woodson
I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.
Fynn
This too, shall pass. Your religion wants your money more than your faith. (contributed by BWS) Fate is bounded in the midst of our lifestyle. We must promote a new tomorrow. (contributed by rosco) A Bible falling apart could only belong to a person who isn't. He that will not reason is a bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond To escape criticism - Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist.
Mikhail Bakunin
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.
Ammon Hennacy
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Voltairine de Cleyre
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning person holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you in his panic. Anais Nin No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Stars, count in the billions which makes an atom out of me. If all of this is for nothing and my life means absolutely nothing, then I think I shall enjoy playing for GOD!
Nightfall
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, dreaming of things that we might have been.
Dave Matthews Band
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.
Antony Flew
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. Dan Barker Ask youself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. Ashley Montague It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place.
Carl Lofmark
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing. Bart Simpson saying grace For many of us, we have experienced failures because we placed too much emphasis on religion and believed too much in faith. For those of us who, with our own efforts of sweat and blood, crawled out of the chasm, we find it hard to attribute our success with God. Christians say God was only testing us, but I don't believe that God would have tested and failed us in the first place for loving and trusting Him. Jason Q. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke So, if the Bible is our sole source of knowledge about God's will, we have no way of knowing what to do in many moral situations.
C. Stephen Layman
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann Druyen
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. Bertrand Russell You judge me but you don't know me. You will drown in your own hypocrisy before you realize I speak the truth. Ben Ewing The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.
Reflections by R. S. Thomas
Do what you say you will do.
James M. Kouzes
Athiests don't believe in God nor an afterlife. But Believers do believe in God and an afterlife. And what's interesting to think about is that if Athiests are right, then they'll never know it. If they are wrong, then they will regret it. Believers will never know if they are wrong, but, if they are right, then they will be happy. Alex Seger Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them. The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. Malcolm Muggeridge When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down. Venita Cravens If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. Raoul Vaneigem When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. Brian Aldiss Those who cannot think for themselves are emotionally unequipped to spend time alone. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.
John Stuart Mill
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings
Beholds the lion prowling From now until eternity The philosopher shall be howling And the hoi polloi shall be scowling Freedom is a limited commodity. The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Toulouse-Lautrec Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. Aldous Huxley Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. Walter Savage Landor You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo Da Vinci Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first...
Ed Vedder
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. Muhammad What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor Frankl Either I will find a way, or I will make one. Phillip Sidney The truth shall make you free, but first it shall piss you off. The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.
Ian Stewart
A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err. Alexander Pope Cogita tute - think for yourself. In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. Leo Rosten A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
Norman Mailer
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Issac Asimov |
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. Tryon Edwards Success has killed more men than bullets. Texas Guinan The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? Holly Near Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Jean Rostand It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern."
anonymous Belfast resident
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged." Ayn Rand Judge not, but be prepared to be judged. Jason Q. I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's. William Blake You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls.
Ten Bears
I am nothing and should be everything. Karl Marx
You can be watching T.V. and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All Cokes are the same and all Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
Show me an idealistic person who says that life must be preserved at any cost and I will show you a practical person who will betray anyone, anytime, to remain alive. The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers. Those who look for the laws of nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Copiers do not collaborate. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. Antoni Gaudi 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 and punishment and hope of reward after death. It is therefore easy to see why the Churches have always fought science and persecuted its devotees. Albert Einstein The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake I think; therefore I am.
René Descartes Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase... the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. Frank Herbert, Dune We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
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