Julius Haldeman Quotes

#1. In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

Zachary Knighton

#2. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#3. But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Norton Juster

#4. As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#5. To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#6. The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Epicurus

#7. "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#8. To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#9. It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable ... There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#10. It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#11. Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#12. A day like this ... is almost too perfect to be legal.

Robert Michael Pyle

#13. Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Timothy Ferriss

#14. Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#15. Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#16. I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

Kathy Acker

#17. Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

Jeanne Moreau

#18. We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

Raf Simons

#19. The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess.

Padma Lakshmi

#20. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#21. Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

E. Haldeman-Julius

#22. We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#23. THE MISCONCEPTION: You calculate what is risky or rewarding and always choose to maximize gains while minimizing losses. THE TRUTH: You depend on emotions to tell you if something is good or bad, greatly overestimate rewards, and tend to stick to your first impressions.

David McRaney

#24. Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#25. My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

J. A. Jance

#26. The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

J.I. Packer

#27. Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#28. When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.

Abdu'l- Baha

#29. Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#30. A good title is a work of a genius!

E. Haldeman-Julius