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Nothing so outrages the feelings of the church as a moral unbeliever — nothing so horrible as a charitable Atheist.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
“Thomas Paine” (1870)
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Added on 8-Feb-21 | Last updated 8-Feb-21
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Topics: atheist, believer, church, doctrine, freethinker, heretic, legalism, meme, morality, unbeliever
More quotes by Ingersoll, Robert Green Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
Steve Allen (1922-2000) American composer, entertainer, and wit.
Vulgarians at the Gate (2001)
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Added on 5-Feb-21 | Last updated 5-Feb-21
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Topics: belief system, believer, faith, humanism, progress, religion
More quotes by Allen, Steve If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
Graham Greene (1904-1991) English novelist [Henry Graham Greene]
The Comedians [Dr. Magiot] (1966)
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Added on 2-Oct-20 | Last updated 2-Oct-20
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More quotes by Greene, Graham The most dangerous heresy of our time, it bears repeating, is the belief that belief in itself is a good thing, regardless of its content; for faith that is attached to an unworthy or inadequate object makes people less than they are, not more.
Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) Anglo-American columnist, journalist, author
“Strictly Personal” column (8 Apr 1955)
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Added on 21-Jul-20 | Last updated 21-Jul-20
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Topics: belief, believer, faith, object, veneration
More quotes by Harris, Sydney J. If you derive pleasure from the good which you have performed and you grieve for the evil which you have committed, you are a true believer.
Muhammad (570-632) Arabian merchant, prophet, founder of Islam [Mohammed]
The Sayings of Muhammed, #67 [tr. Al-Suhrawardy (1941)]
Added on 1-Mar-16 | Last updated 1-Mar-16
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Topics: belief, believer, conscience, joy, morality, penitence, regret, repentance, shame
More quotes by Muhammad GEORGE: There is presumably a calendar date — a moment — when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
Jumpers, Act 1 (1972)
Added on 26-Sep-14 | Last updated 26-Sep-14
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Topics: atheism, atheist, belief, believer, burden of proof, disbelief, proof, unbeliever
More quotes by Stoppard, Tom The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 13, § 62 (1951)
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Added on 3-Feb-14 | Last updated 8-Aug-24
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More quotes by Hoffer, Eric 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 of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
Androcles and the Lion, Preface (1912)
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Added on 9-Jul-04 | Last updated 27-Oct-20
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Topics: belief, believer, credulity, happiness, intoxication, skeptic, skepticism
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