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Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers. Nothing so enrages them, even now, as to have some one deny their existence.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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First given on the 135th birthday of Thomas Paine.
Collected in
The Gods and Other Lectures (1876).
Added on 23-Oct-25 | Last updated 23-Oct-25
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Topics: apostasy, deities, disbelief, divine anger, divine punishment, divine will, divine wrath, God, gods, unbeliever
More quotes by Ingersoll, Robert Green 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, freethinker, 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 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Man the Reformer,” lecture, Boston (1841-01-25)
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Topics: cruelty, history, humanity, love, pagan, reformation, unbeliever, world
More quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 (1937–2025) 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 thorough skeptic is a dogmatist. He enjoys the delusion of complete futility.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
“Mathematics and the Good,”
The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (1941)