“The next time you hear a theist claim morality comes from God, ask them this question: Would they immediately start raping and killing people if they found out for certain there was no God? If their answer is no, then you have just perfectly and permanently refuted this argument. If their answer is yes…”
- Sean Prophet
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
- Gerry Spence
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
- Robert Green Ingersoll
“Be not simply good, be good for something”
- Henry David Thoreau
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
- Bryan White
“Some people hear voices… Some see invisible people… Others have no imagination whatsoever.”
- Unknown
“Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?”
- Plato
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?”
- Epicurus
“I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.”
- Mark Twain
“We experience happiness and suffering ourselves; we encounter others in the world and recognize that they experience happiness and suffering as well; we soon discover that ‘love’ is largely a matter of wishing that others experience happiness rather than suffering; and most of us come to feel that love is more conducive to happiness, both our own and that of others, than hate. There is a circle here that links us to one another: we each want to be happy; the social feeling of love is one of our greatest sources of happiness; and love entails that we be concerned for the happiness of others. We discover that we can be selfish together.”
- Sam Harris
“I reject the notion of they. Who are they? They are the universal scapegoat.”
- Xander Snoweye
“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.”
-Chinese proverb
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
- Mark Twain
“RELIGION: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
- Ambrose Bierce
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
- Albert Einstein
“Behind every man stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.”
- Charles Eames
“If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before.”
- Jonas Salk
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
- Confucius
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
- Mark Twain
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.”
- Unknown
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Blindly, we accept what we see.”
- Xander Snoweye
“I’m not crazy. ‘Crazy’ is spending 40 years of your life hating 40 hours a week.”
- Unknown
“Amateurs started Google and Apple. Professionals built the Titanic.”
- Unknown
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
- William Allen White
“Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover up the truth.”
- V, from V for Vendetta