Quotes January 15, 2008

Here are some quotes i like.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Gandhi

Atheism: A non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Einstein

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
-Jefferson

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
-Voltaire

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer

With or without religion, 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

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