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| How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. | Alexander The Great | 352-323 BC, Alexander III, Ancient Macedonian King |
| Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| I am a daylight atheist. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. | Captain J. G. Stedman | 1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist |
| Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. | Denis E. Brogan | |
| An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. | Edith Hamilton | 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator |
| By night an atheist half believes in God. | Edward Young | 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist |
| Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go. | Epitaph | |
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| ATHEISM is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to ATHEISM, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Small amounts of philosophy lead to ATHEISM, but larger amounts bring us back to God. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. | Francis Thompson | 1859-1907, British Poet |
| If there is no God, everything is permitted. | Fyodor Dostoevski | 1821-1881, Russian Novelist |
| It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. | Fyodor Dostoevski | 1821-1881, Russian Novelist |
| I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him). | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
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| If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. | Harold Macmillan | 1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister |
| No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. | Hector Hugh Munro | 1870-1916, British Novelist, Writer |
| Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. | Heywood Broun | 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist |
| Selfishness is the only real ATHEISM; unselfishness the only real religion. | Israel Zangwill | 1864-1926, British Writer |
| A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go. | James Duffecy | |
| If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small. | James Phillips | |
| Despair is the only genuine ATHEISM. | Jean Paul | |
| The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. | Jean Rostand | 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer |
| He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. | Marquis De Sade | 1740-1814, French Author |
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| He talks about the Scylla of ATHEISM and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. | Norman Douglas | 1868-1952, British Author |
| There are few people so stubborn in their ATHEISM who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'' | Quentin Crisp | 1908-, British Author |
| Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. | Robert Browning | 1812-1889, British Poet |
| ATHEISM is easy in fair weather. | Ronald Dunn | |
| Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet ATHEISM, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?'** | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. | Simone Weil | 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic |
| I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | Socrates | BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens |
| The atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence | Source Unknown | |
| An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see. | Source Unknown | |
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| An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support | Source Unknown | |
| How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook. | Source Unknown | |
| Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens. | Source Unknown | |
| The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. | Source Unknown | |
| The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. | Themistocles | 528-462 B.C. Greek Statesman, Soldier |
| There are no atheists in foxholes. | William T. Cummings | |
