Militant Atheism Quotes

#1. We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#2. Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.

Po Bronson

#3. Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Charlton Heston

#4. Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has ...

Murray Walker

#5. I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

Linus Pauling

#6. It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall

Susan Hill

#7. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

#8. To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Tommaso Campanella

#9. From little seeds great flowers grow.

Jessie Burton

#10. A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.)

Stormie O'martian

#11. DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.

Norman Finkelstein

#12. I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

Daniel Radcliffe

#13. Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction - a lurid but natural reaction - to the violence of the Islamic world.

David Berlinski

#15. Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

T. Boone Pickens

#16. Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

James A. Haught

#17. So your stance on beards is?

Kristen Callihan