Quotes About Bradlaugh

#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. Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#3. Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charles Bradlaugh

#4. Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

Charles Bradlaugh

#5. The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

Charles Bradlaugh

#6. Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Gunter Grass

#7. If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

Charles Bradlaugh

#8. I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

Charles Bradlaugh

#9. Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Charles Bradlaugh

#10. My father was always in good spirits, he loved football. It makes me a bit sad because if he could enjoy seeing me now, what I have achieved, that would be a highlight in his life. But I'm sure that he watches over me from above.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#11. Heresy makes for progress.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#12. I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Charles Bradlaugh

#13. Away with all these gods and godlings; they are worse than useless.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#14. [That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Charles Bradlaugh

#15. Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Charles Bradlaugh

#16. If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

Charles Bradlaugh

#17. I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Charles Bradlaugh

#18. Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Charles Bradlaugh

#19. A mere society form of Atheism.

Charles Bradlaugh

#20. Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.

Charles Bradlaugh

#21. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Charles Bradlaugh

#22. There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Charles Bradlaugh

#23. Without free speech no search for truth is possible ... no discovery of truth is useful ... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Charles Bradlaugh

#24. The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown

Karen Thompson Walker

#25. Penelope did not understand how this [study] group was ever formed. It consisted only of her mortal enemies. However, these were things you seemed to put aside during exam period.

Rebecca Harrington

#26. goes to the cottage. They may place her in Witness Protection without warning,

David Baldacci

#27. We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Henry Samueli

#28. Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor
thank Heaven!
always Storm.

Charlotte Bronte