Atheists, what is your favorite quote?

Answer 1

I can't pick just one..no friggin way. I'll go with a short one and a long one:

"Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature." - Robert Ingersoll "Some Mistakes of Moses"

"If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender, it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine, neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena." [Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child", 1877]

Answer 2

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

Xenophanes

Answer 3

god damn it!!
and thank god!1!1
or oh my god

okay. they're more like phrases. but whatever

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okay. these are my favorite quotes

Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.
- Anonymous

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.
- Buddha

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France


Love is blind -but not the neighbors <- LOL^^
- Mexican Proverb

Answer 4

Do not look back unless you plan on going that way. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The pen is mightier than the sword. ~ American proverb

Get busy living, or get busy dying. ~ Stephen King

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ~ Gandhi

Answer 5

You can fool some of the believers some of the time,
and you can fool part of the believers part of the time,
in fact... if you'd like to, you can fool all of the believers all of the time just by mentioning the word "scripture."

(Not really a quote, but I like it.)

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Answer 6

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Answer 7

To quote Gandhi...

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

Answer 8

The more I learn the less I know.

Answer 9

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
-Carl Sagan

Answer 10

"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."