// ============================================== // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com // Free for all; but please leave in this header. // ============================================== var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. // To add more quotations, continue with the // pattern, adding to the array. Remember // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Quotation[0] = ""The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
- Abu Ala Al-Maarri"; Quotation[1] = ""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"
- Albert Einstein"; Quotation[2] = ""It was, of course, a lie...I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
- Albert Einstein"; Quotation[3] = ""No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
- Annie Wood Besant"; Quotation[4] = ""I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
- Arthur C. Clarke"; Quotation[5] = ""People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter (...) than by a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes."
- Baron d`Holbach"; Quotation[6] = ""The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"
- Benjamin Franklin"; Quotation[7] = ""And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
- Bertrand Russell"; Quotation[8] = ""The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."
- Bertrand Russell"; Quotation[9] = ""I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
- Bill Maher"; Quotation[10] = ""Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions."
- Blaise Pascal"; Quotation[11] = ""You can not convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it is based on a deep-seated need to believe."
- Carl Sagan"; Quotation[12] = ""It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men."
- Carl Sagan"; Quotation[13] = ""Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
- Carl Sagan"; Quotation[14] = ""Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
- Chapman Cohen"; Quotation[15] = ""I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."
- Clarence Darrow"; Quotation[16] = ""The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike"
- Delos B. McKown"; Quotation[17] = ""I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"
- Doug McLeod"; Quotation[18] = ""The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe."
- Ed Krebs"; Quotation[19] = ""If there is a God, Atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
- Edmond & Jules de Goncourt"; Quotation[20] = ""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"; Quotation[21] = ""The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
- Ferdinand Magellan"; Quotation[22] = ""I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them"
- Galileo Galilei"; Quotation[23] = ""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"
- Gene Roddenberry"; Quotation[24] = ""The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one"
- George Bernard Shaw"; Quotation[25] = ""No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
- George Bernard Shaw"; Quotation[26] = ""Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you."
- George Carlin"; Quotation[27] = ""We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart"
- H. L. Mencken"; Quotation[28] = ""The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see."
- Huang Po"; Quotation[29] = ""If God were alive today, He'd be an athiest."
- Kurt Vonnegut"; Quotation[30] = ""Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor."
- Lord Byron"; Quotation[31] = ""Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."
- Marie"; Quotation[32] = ""Faith is believing something you know ain`t true."
- Mark Twain"; Quotation[33] = ""When I point out fallacies in religious logic, adherents tell me that the human brain cannot comprehend God. They also tell me that God created the human brain. God is clearly inept."
- Matthew Benjamin Smith"; Quotation[34] = ""Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing."
- Maynard James Keenan"; Quotation[35] = ""In the absence of fear there is little faith."
- Michael Pain"; Quotation[36] = ""Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet"
- Napoleon Bonaparte"; Quotation[37] = ""The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
- Penn and Teller"; Quotation[38] = ""Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
- Richard Dawkins"; Quotation[39] = ""Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"
- Richard Dawkins"; Quotation[40] = ""You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend"
- Richard Jeni"; Quotation[41] = ""There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages."
- Richard Lederer (Anguished English)"; Quotation[42] = ""As people become more intelligent they care less for preaches and more for teachers."
- Robert G. Ingersoll"; Quotation[43] = ""Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent."
- Robert Green Ingersoll"; Quotation[44] = ""Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately."
- Scott Adams"; Quotation[45] = ""Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
- Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d."; Quotation[46] = ""Try not to think about it too much, that's how Atheists are made."
- Stan Naspinski"; Quotation[47] = ""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"
- Stephen Roberts"; Quotation[48] = ""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."
- Steven Weinberg"; Quotation[49] = ""I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony"; Quotation[50] = ""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."
- Thomas Edison"; Quotation[51] = ""Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson"; Quotation[52] = ""I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
- Thomas Jefferson"; Quotation[53] = ""…the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any."
- Thomas Paine"; Quotation[54] = ""The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."
- Treaty of Tripoli"; Quotation[55] = ""Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
- Unknown"; Quotation[56] = ""Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
- unknown"; Quotation[57] = ""Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish"
- unknown"; Quotation[58] = ""Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."
- Unknown"; Quotation[59] = ""Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church"
- unknown"; Quotation[60] = ""Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities"
- Voltaire"; // ====================================== // Do not change anything below this line // ====================================== var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation();