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#1

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights

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#2

“If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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#3

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”
― Ayn Rand

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#4

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.”
― Ayn Rand

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#5

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#6

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”
― Ayn Rand

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#7

“Never ask people about your work.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#8

“There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged: Wer ist John Galt?

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#9

“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Broken Angels

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion

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#10

“Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?”
― Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith

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#11

“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: atheism, belief, damnation, death, eternal-suffering, forgiving, hell, humor, infinite-love, lord, love, message, options, question, suffering

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#12

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

tags: atheism, creativity

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#13

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: agnostic, atheism, atheist, belief, emotion, humanist, interview, knowledge, reason, religion, respect, science

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#14

“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#15

“So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
― Richard Dawkins

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#16

“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition

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#17

“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: antitheism, arrogance, atheism, modesty, religion, solipsism

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#18

“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”
― David Hume

tags: atheism

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#19

“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
― Richard Pryor

tags: atheism, humor, religion, vampires

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#20

“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.”
― Madalyn Murray O'Hair

tags: atheism, atheists, religion

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#21

“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”
― Ruth Hurmence Green

tags: atheism, christianity, dark-ages, religion

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#22

“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: democracy, freedom, patriot-act

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#23

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#24

“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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#25

“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: deception, honesty, politics

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#26

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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#27

“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: lying, sins-of-omission

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#28

“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: politicians

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#29

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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#30

“I grok in fullness.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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