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quotes[0]='&quot;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&quot;  &ndash; <i>Stephen Roberts</i>'

quotes[1]='&quot;It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men.&quot; &ndash; <i>Carl Sagan</i>' 

quotes[2]='&quot;Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Karl Marx</i>'

quotes[3]='&quot;The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.&quot; &ndash; <i>Ferdinand Magellan </i> '

quotes[4]='&quot;I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Susan B. Anthony </i> '

quotes[5]='&quot;No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Annie Wood Besant  </i> '

quotes[6]='&quot;Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Blaise Pascal  </i> '

quotes[7]='&quot;Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Chapman Cohen  </i> '

quotes[8]='&quot;No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.&quot;  &ndash; <i>George Bernard Shaw  </i> '

quotes[9]='&quot;As people become more intelligent they care less for preaches and more for teachers.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Robert G. Ingersoll  </i> '

quotes[10]='&quot;The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Abu Ala Al-Maarri  </i> '

quotes[11]='&quot;History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Jefferson </i> '

quotes[12]='&quot;It was, of course, a lie...I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Albert Einstein </i> '

quotes[13]='&quot;I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Edison </i> '

quotes[14]='&quot;In the absence of fear there is little faith.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Michael Pain </i> '

quotes[15]='&quot;Those who can do, those who can&acute;t teach. Those who can&acute;t teach become politicians, the rest become priests.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Rupert Young </i> '

quotes[16]='&quot;There is no God, accept it, get over it, move on!&quot;  &ndash; <i>Rupert Young </i> '

quotes[17]='&quot;An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.&quot;  &ndash; <i>John Buchan </i> '

quotes[18]='&quot;If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Albert Einstein</i> '

quotes[19]='&quot;All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. &quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Paine</i> '

quotes[20]='&quot;To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.&quot;  &ndash; <i>William Ralph Inge</i> '

quotes[21]='&quot;Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Szasz</i> '

quotes[22]='&quot;An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. &quot;  &ndash; <i>Madalyn Murray O&acute;Hair</i> '

quotes[23]='&quot;I enjoy being Jewish, but I&acute;m an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. &quot;  &ndash; <i>Warren Mitchell</i> '

quotes[24]='&quot;I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Henny Youngman</i> '

quotes[25]='&quot;Isn&acute;t an agnostic just an atheist without balls?  &quot;  &ndash; <i>Stephen Colbert</i> '

quotes[26]='&quot;When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, &acute;Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don&acute;t believe?.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Quentin Crisp</i> '
    
quotes[27]='&quot;Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Paine</i> '
                                         
quotes[28]='&quot;Creationists make it sound as though a &acute;theory&acute; is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Isaac Asimov</i> '

quotes[29]='&quot;I don&acute;t believe in God but I&acute;m very interested in her.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Arthur C. Clarke</i> '

quotes[30]='&quot;If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Robert Green Ingersoll</i> '

quotes[31]='&quot;If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. &quot;  &ndash; <i>Lenny Bruce</i> '

quotes[32]='&quot;Isn&acute;t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?&quot;  &ndash; <i>Douglas Adams</i> '

quotes[33]='&quot;It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. &quot;  &ndash; <i>H. L. Mencken</i> '

quotes[34]='&quot;Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Albert Einstein</i> '

quotes[35]='&quot;One man&acute;s theology is another man&acute;s belly laugh.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Robert A. Heinlein</i> '

quotes[36]='&quot;Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Thomas Jefferson</i> '

quotes[37]='&quot;Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Frederick II</i> '

quotes[38]='&quot;Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn&acute;t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Robert A. Heinlein</i> '

quotes[39]='&quot;There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.&quot;  &ndash; <i>Louis Kronenberger</i> '


  

 

 






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