Top 25 Chapman Cohen Quotes
#1. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]
Chapman Cohen
#2. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
Chapman Cohen
#3. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
Michael Jackson
#4. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
Oscar Wilde
#5. We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work
James Fallows
#7. There is something within us that responds deeply to people who level with us.
Susan Scott
#8. We all have hearts ... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
Stevie Wonder
#9. The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get ... , you're thrown into this new trailer - here's your wardrobe.
Mekhi Phifer
#10. Recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible ...
Charles Kaiser
#11. The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.
David Eddings
#12. If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist - he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.
Chapman Cohen
#13. Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.
Chapman Cohen
#14. It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
Chapman Cohen
#15. When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
Michael Snow
#16. ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.
Chapman Cohen
#17. Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
Chapman Cohen
#18. Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen
#19. Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.
Kim Basinger
#20. I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
Elizabeth David
#21. The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
Chapman Cohen
#22. Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.
Chapman Cohen
#23. Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.
Shenhui
#24. It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.
Chapman Cohen
#25. If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
Chapman Cohen
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