Positive Atheism Quotes

#1. He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life.

Rick Yancey

#2. There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

Francis Collins

#3. Science is the only savior.

Luther Burbank

#4. Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Thomas Paine

#5. Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

Rachel Sklar

#6. The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Emily Dickinson

#7. 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.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#8. The man is the alien.
And the stranger.
And the lonely.
Confused, lost in himself, he no longer knows who or what he is, why or where he is.

Cristiane Serruya

#9. I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Luther Burbank

#10. Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

John Dewey

#11. Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Emily Dickinson

#12. Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

Emily Dickinson

#14. The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#15. The people of Abadan defended the city with empty hands, and our sons and brothers fell to the ground like flowers in the fall. My friend, believe me, today the date palms are broken. Tell me, when will our youth, our date palms, be green again?

Camelia Entekhabifard

#16. Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

A.J.P. Taylor

#17. My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

Harriet Martineau

#18. Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#19. It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Eric Hoffer

#20. What can I hope when all is right?

Voltaire