Top 33 Madalyn O'hair Quotes

#1. Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

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#2. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

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#3. Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

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#4. The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

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#5. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.

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#6. I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

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#7. Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

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#8. Religion is induced insanity.

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#9. Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

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#10. Religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

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#11. Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

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#12. Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

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#13. The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

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#14. Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

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#15. I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

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#16. Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

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#17. I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.

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#18. Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

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#19. The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

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#20. One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times ... He is beyond human forgiveness.

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#21. No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

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#22. The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

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#23. You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

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#24. The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

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#25. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

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#26. There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

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#27. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

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#28. We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

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#29. In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

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#30. Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

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#31. I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

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#32. Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

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#33. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

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