"Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors."
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"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests."
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"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
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"Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves."
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"I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above."
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"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country."
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"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."
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"The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all."
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
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"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary."
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."
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"Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing."
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"Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important."
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"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."
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"... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy."
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"On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists."
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"Misery motivates, not utopia."
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"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
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