“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” - Denis Diderot


“Faith is believing what you know ain't so.” - Mark Twain

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Stephen F. Roberts

“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." - José Bergamín

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.” - comedian George Carlin

”The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” - Brennan Manning

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.” - Arthur C. Clarke

“Gods like atheists; it gives them something to aim at.” - Terry Pratchett

“Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.” - Don Hirschberg

“You show me a communist and I will show you someone who will be upset if I eat his sandwich. You show me an anarchist and I will show you someone who calls the cops when he finds me rooting through his closet at 3am. You show me an atheist and I will show you someone begging for God's forgiveness when they taste their own mortality.” - J. P. Chilensky[citation needed]

“An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the god question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.” - John McCarthy

"I do not believe in any religion. I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another." - Lord Byron

"The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly." - Thomas Jefferson

"My earlier views on the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation have become clearer and stronger with advancing years." - Abraham Lincoln

"The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, 'here's a Chaplain who never visited the front.'" - Kurt Vonnegut in Hocus Pocus

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon

"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes." - James Morrow

"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it." - Bertrand Russell

“’In God We Trust.’ I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.” - Mark Twain

“The fool says in his heart: 'There is no God.' The Wise Man says it to the world.” - Troy Witte

“Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies.” - Thomas Jefferson

Whilst there are millions of quotable quotes (yep, I am guessing if you read this far you will notice a theme), I would like to finish with some by one of my favourite authors... The late, Douglas Adams...

“People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)” - Douglas Adams

"If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian." - Douglas Adams

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." - Douglas Adams

Please enjoy and feel free to discuss or add.

This could become an interesting read with people adding their own interesting quotes....

Just a thought.

I often read Phils comments just to read the quotes he has on the bottom of his comments. Now sure how he does it so quickly but he seems to always find one relevant to his comment.

ozzyoi wrote on Nov 15^th, 2015 at 9:01pm:

I simply am trying to make sense of all this BS, lately in Paris. Maybe some quotes and opinions would shed some light on all this? I don't know. 'wikiislam.net/wiki/Quotations_on_Islam_from_Notable_Non-Muslims' Mark Twain's quote stands out, though I have not read them all yet. Quote: That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. You may have a favorite or 2, post it.

Ya just can't have too many quotes!

:D :D

Trouble is, if you add up all the pithy statements they probably cancel each other out and come to zero.

bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 6:39am:

Trouble is, if you add up all the pithy statements they probably cancel each other out and come to zero.

I think that's a very important observation about almost all of our human endeavours...

Can I quote you?   :D :D :D :D

I'd take one quote from God over a million human quotes. After all, how often is man wrong? 95% of the time?

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 7:54am:

I'd take one quote from God over a million human quotes. After all, how often is man wrong? 95% of the time?

I am sure most would take a quote from God... Sadly we have none though, so we just have quotes from "Man" about God, which you have worked out for us are wrong 95% of the time...

Thanks for the quote and the Math.

God speaks to me all the time in the finance pages. Trouble is, I am always misinterpreting his message.

bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 8:44am:

God speaks to me all the time in the finance pages. Trouble is, I am always misinterpreting his message.

Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. God has some strong opinions on money!

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 9:03am:

bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 8:44am: God speaks to me all the time in the finance pages. Trouble is, I am always misinterpreting his message. Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. God has some strong opinions on money!

and yet you live your whole life in the pursuit of it .... what a good christian you are :D :D :D

John Smith wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 9:30am:

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 9:03am: bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 8:44am: God speaks to me all the time in the finance pages. Trouble is, I am always misinterpreting his message. Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. God has some strong opinions on money! and yet you live your whole life in the pursuit of it .... what a good christian you are :D :D :D

Because I worked????  Maybe you should try it.

I thought it was supposed to be hard for wealthy people to get into heaven?

"and Man created God in his own Image..."  - don't recall the author...

Stratos wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 10:31am:

I thought it was supposed to be hard for wealthy people to get into heaven?

Hard - not impossible and for reasons I am pretty sure no one could ever explain to you. After all, no one has been able to explain a single thing to you so far.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 10:24am:

John Smith wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 9:30am: mariacostel wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 9:03am: bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16th, 2015 at 8:44am: God speaks to me all the time in the finance pages. Trouble is, I am always misinterpreting his message. Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. God has some strong opinions on money! and yet you live your whole life in the pursuit of it .... what a good christian you are :D :D :D Because I worked????  Maybe you should try it.

work? no everyone has to work to survive

because you cherish money above all else.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 12:02pm:

Hard - not impossible and for reasons I am pretty sure no one could ever explain to you.

You must be thinking of a mighty needle.  However, it is most likely a typo, as the Greek words for "camel" and "rope" are only one letter different, and a rope makes a lot more sense.

"God helps those who help themselves, but, Christ help whoever gets caught helping themselves...."

My father, although I am not sure who he stole it from...

"Why not try Peace for a while?

If we find war is better it will not be difficult to fight again."

Abdu'l Baha

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

Keep them coming Phem.  ;)

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Phemanderac wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 6:33am:

Ya just can't have too many quotes! :D :D

Too right :) I will add some...

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our brain, our own heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness." ~ Dalai Lama

"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy." ~ Albert Schweitzer

"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

Is this only about religion?  Or is that just another bug hunt?

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing."

Jean Batiste Colbert, Minister of Finance to Louis XIV


“Organisation doesn’t really accomplish anything.  Plans don’t accomplish anything, either.  Theories of management don’t much matter.  Endeavours succeed of fail because of the people involved.  Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”

Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State.

'I not only intend to remain a free person but will do everything in my power to ensure that my children remain free.'

'I will also be a promoter of liberty everywhere.'

'That these stands, once common, and the people who make them are now readily labeled 'controversial' or worse only makes the case for a book like this stronger...'

Lloyd Billingsley - The Absence of Tyranny

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Adolf Hitler


Onya LEFTARD APOLOGISTS

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler


Leftard Apologists gobble it up

'Whenever we leave principles and clear positive laws we are soon lost in the wild regions of imagination and possibility where arbitrary power sits upon her brazen throne and governs with an iron scepter' .

- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States.

Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently.  They are falsely attributed to him.

For content:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -  Phillip K. Dick

Stratos wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm:

Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently.  They are falsely attributed to him. For content: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -  Phillip K. Dick

If you say so ;)

Stratos wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm:

Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently.  They are falsely attributed to him. For content: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -  Phillip K. Dick

I think Goebbels was the creator of the one about telling a life often enough....

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
― Joseph Goebbels"

coupled with......

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels

and this....

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
― Joseph Goebbels


https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/281832.Joseph_Goebbels

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
William Drummond

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
Adam-Troy Castro

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Reza Aslan

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
Dick Gregory

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Charles de Secondat

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:14pm:

Stratos wrote on Nov 17th, 2015 at 11:09pm: Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently.  They are falsely attributed to him. For content: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -  Phillip K. Dick I think Goebbels was the creator of the one about telling a lie often enough.... “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” ― Joseph Goebbels" coupled with...... “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” ― Joseph Goebbels and this.... “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” ― Joseph Goebbels https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/281832.Joseph_Goebbels

Huh?  How dat happen - I meant 'modify'.....

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
Richard Dawkins

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer

I borrowed this one from one of Phils posts (hope you don't mind Phil)


Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

John Smith wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 8:04am:

I borrowed this one from one of Phils posts (hope you don't mind Phil) Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people.

Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts.

"Those who reject faith will largely be nameless, for their great deeds will be few and their exploits diminished. The great will always have faith while the faithless live and die unregarded and unlamented."

mariacostel wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 5:27pm:

And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people. Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts.

wrong way around dopey ...... people have faith in those things because their faith is supported by factual past experiences. We know businesses based on search engines work, there are hundreds out there to prove it. We have faith in intellectually disabled kids rising to lead because they have done so in the past. Your examples are faith based on facts.

Phem, those quotes are truly terrible. Preachy, witless and boring. Like your posts.

double plus good wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 9:13pm:

Phem, those quotes are truly terrible. Preachy, witless and boring. Like your posts.

you could always show him how clever you are  :D :D :D :D

mariacostel wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 5:27pm:

Those who reject faith will largely be nameless, for their great deeds will be few and their exploits diminished. The great will always have faith while the faithless live and die unregarded and unlamented

"Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king."

-Fred Hollows.

A man who is apparently largely nameless, with few great deeds, who died unregarded and unlamented.

Never argue with a fool; people won't be able to tell the difference.

double plus good wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 3:45am:

Never argue with a fool; people won't be able to tell the difference.

Unsure of who quoted it, but there is also this one:

"never argue with an idiot, they will pull you down to their level, and then beat you with experience"

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
Michel de Montaigne

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

"The broccoli says 'I look like a small tree', the mushroom says 'I look like an umbrella', the walnut says 'I look like a brain', and the banana says 'Can we please change the subject?' "

mariacostel wrote on Nov 16^th, 2015 at 7:54am:

I'd take one quote from God over a million human quotes. After all, how often is man wrong? 95% of the time?

;D ;D ;D

... and Who created Man?

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 7:02am:

and Who created Man?

Can I quote you on that?   :D

Phemanderac wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 6:49am:

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein

;D ;D ;D

John Smith wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 9:09pm:

mariacostel wrote on Nov 21st, 2015 at 5:27pm: And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people. Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts. wrong way around dopey ...... people have faith in those things because their faith is supported by factual past experiences. We know businesses based on search engines work, there are hundreds out there to prove it. We have faith in intellectually disabled kids rising to lead because they have done so in the past. Your examples are faith based on facts.

The only thing consistent in your posting is its absolute ignorance of how the world works. Congrats. You are officially the stupidest post on here edging out Pansi and Greens_10%.  Even Monk is less stupid than you - if only because he occasionally gets something right.

You know nothing about anything, but like a fool, that doesnt stop you from talking.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 7:47am:

John Smith wrote on Nov 21st, 2015 at 9:09pm: mariacostel wrote on Nov 21st, 2015 at 5:27pm: And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people. Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts. wrong way around dopey ...... people have faith in those things because their faith is supported by factual past experiences. We know businesses based on search engines work, there are hundreds out there to prove it. We have faith in intellectually disabled kids rising to lead because they have done so in the past. Your examples are faith based on facts. The only thing consistent in your posting is its absolute ignorance of how the world works. Congrats. You are officially the stupidest post on here edging out Pansi and Greens_10%.  Even Monk is less stupid than you - if only because he occasionally gets something right. You know nothing about anything, but like a fool, that doesnt stop you from talking.

so you've got nothing?  ;D ;D ;D ;D

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
Bryant H. McGill

"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
William Lyon Phelps

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."
Laurence Sterne

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine sounds like a dickhead.

Stratos wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2015 at 6:39am:

"never argue with an idiot, they will pull you down to their level, and then beat you with experience"