"On the first day, Man created God."
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"-Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book ? what everyone else does not say in a whole book."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding ? in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty ? I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"You know what my favorite thing in the world is? I'll tell you.
Each week, millions and millions of upper class American citizens put on expensive dress clothes, and load themselves into SUV's and drive past homeless shelters, orphanages, prisons, missions, and halfway houses on their way to a very expensive and nice church, where somebody tells them how to be more like Jesus.
That is fucking awesome, let me tell you."
"Failure is not when you fall down, failure is when you fall down and don't get back up."
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."-Martin Niemöller
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."-Carl Sagan
"In a society that has abolished all adventure, the only adventure left is to abolish that society."
"Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned" - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
"People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Be good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
People need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway."-Dr. Kent M. Keith
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out."
"When fascism comes to this country, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
"Whether you think you can, or you can't, either way you are right."-Henry Ford
"The lie tastes sweet at the beginning, but bitter at the end. The truth tastes bitter at the beginning, but sweet at the end."
"When you are sad, laugh. Madness is liberating."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare... but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it's the rule."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Calvin and Hobbes
"What are you fighting for? Patriotism? Duty? Are you mad? Can't you see that they're just words; words coined by politicians and profiteers to trick you into fighting for them. What's a word compared with life, the only life you got."-Monte Rutledge, Hell's Angels (1930)
"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."-Ender Wiggin, Ender's Game
"Power tires only those who do not have it."-Giulio Andreotti
"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest,
'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?'
'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.'
'Then why,' asked the Eskimo, 'did you tell me?'"-Annie Dillard
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."-Samuel Johnson
"Kill a man, one is a murderer;
Kill a million, a conqueror;
Kill them all, a God."-Jean Rostand
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."-Robert G. Inseroll
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."-Epicurus
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."-Susan B. Anthony
"It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each others throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut."-Walter P. Stacy
"I like to point out how irrational it is to have any reverence for religion at all. We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountaintop throwing lighting bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're...sophisticated.'"-Paul Provenza
"If lighting is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly with trees."-Laozi
"Distance is to love what wind is to fire. Extinguishes the small, but ignites the great."
"Everybody lies."-Gregory House, House M.D
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans."-John Lennon
"The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star in a minor galaxy in an underpopulated local group of galaxies in an unfashionable suburb of a supercluster would look up at the sky and declare, 'It was all made so that I could exist!'"-Peter Walker
"The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice."
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
"Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted."
"Doesn?t matter what the press says. Doesn?t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn?t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.
This nation was founded on one principle above all else:
The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences.
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world:
'No, YOU move.'"-Captain America, Captain America
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who are alive."-Howard Thurman
"If you can't get someone off your mind, they are probably supposed to be there."
"Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome."-Issac Asimov
"Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons:
1st: We act without thinking
2nd: We keep on thinking without acting"
"Question with boldness even the existence of God because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."-Thomas Jefferson
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"-Douglas Adams
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."-Philip K. Dick
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."-Benjamin Franklin
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."-Aeschylus
"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something."-Plato
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."-Jack Handey
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
"I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia and ignorance and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'."-Mike Fuhrman
"Only sheep need a shepherd."-Voltaire
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."-Christopher Hitchens
"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
"I contend 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
"You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."-Abraham Lincoln
"You see, doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do."-Rorschach, Watchmen
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."-Malcolm X
"Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway."
"You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic."
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it."-Michelangelo
"90% of what is considered 'impossible' is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time&technology."-Hideo Kojima
"We avoid risks in life... so we can make it safely to death."
"It's tough to make a living when all we do is work."
"It is in doing the things we do not want to do, that we become the person who we want to be."
"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe."-Hippocrates
"Hands that help are far better than lips that pray."-Robert G. Ingersoll
"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission."
"Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successfully. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex and technical subject."-Tom Weller
"If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? And if he has spoken, why is the world not convinced?"-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Only by going too far, can one find out how far one can go." - T.S Eliot
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."-Oscar Wilde
"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."-Denis Diderot
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."-Tyler Durden, Fight Club
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."
"In difficult moments, behave like a duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but keep paddling away like crazy underneath."
"It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image."-Ludwig Feuerbach
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."-Chapman Cohen
"A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it."-David Stevens
"Without money we'd all be rich."
"Happiness is given way too much importance these days. Why not go for greatness? Chimps are happy. I will not settle for that."
"Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny."-David Hayden
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
"What was God doing for an eternity before He created the universe ex nihilo? God existed by Himself through an eternity without needing a universe. Why did he suddenly desire to create the universe?"-Peter A. Angeles
"Next time you have a problem, don't feel like you have to climb a mountain. Instead, imagine yourself sitting on a cliff. You can take action and jump to your rescue at any time; you just have to work for the courage."
"In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong."-Abraham Lincoln
"As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the divinity of our globe as the center, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise... I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy."-Harriet Martineau
"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now they tell us we should be thankful to the Lord for being saved."-Pontiac
"The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden story. The subtext is, all the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions... 'Get smart and I'll fuck you over,' sayeth the Lord. Is this not an absolutely anti-intellectual religion?"-Frank Zappa
"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."-Karl Marx
"Happiness is a choice. And it's free. Play on."-Roy H. Williams
"A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned."-Shepherd Book
"How do you choose between believing in Jesus, Bigfoot, leprechauns, witchcraft, Islam, alien abductions, the Tooth Fairy, gold at the end of the rainbow or the myriad other assertions that people have made over the course of human history? Faith is like rolling the dice and hoping you have placed your faith in a true proposition... However, if you are still inclined to place faith in an un-provable assertion, I am God, send me money."-Wayne Adkins
"Since the bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?"
"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is sick from overeating, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares, 'This is God's will'. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."-Napoleon Bonaparte
"The vast majority of personal religious beliefs can be accurately predicted based solely on the beliefs of one's parents or the culture one is raised in... Religionists should ask themselves, 'Are my religious beliefs based on rationality and evidence or indoctrination?'"-John Bice
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."-Isaac Asimov
"When it comes to believing in God, I really, really tried but the more you look around, the more you realize something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, the Ice Capades. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being."-George Carlin
"What is the sense of having as many as 2 or 3 million species living on Earth? Was the Creator in a jocular mood when he made Psilopa petrolei for California oil fields and species of Drosophilia to live exclusively on some body-parts of certain land crabs on only certain islands in the Caribbean? All this is understandable in light of evolution theory; but what a senseless operation it would have been, on God's part, to fabricate a multitude of species ex nihilo and then let most of them die out."-Theodosius Dobzhansky
"If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?"-Ruth Hurmence Green
"In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in pitch-black a blind man is the best guide. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind men as guides."-Heinrich Heine
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."-Anne Lamott
"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own."-Frank Zappa
"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there?s an invisible man?living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn?t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."-George Carlin
"I?m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."-George Carlin
"Which is it, is man one of God?s blunders or is God one of man?s?"-Friedrich Nietzsche
?It ain?t those parts of the Bible that I can?t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.?-Mark Twain
"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."-Voltaire
"There?s a phrase we live by in America: ?In God We Trust?. It?s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money."
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."-Gene Roddenberry
"God should be executed for crimes against humanity."-Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
"It is not the citizens that are to be afraid of their government, but the government to be afraid of its citizens."
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing."-Muhammad Ali
"Life is paradoxically coincidental to the ironical tyranny applicable to the unparalleled definition of reverse entropy."- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
"Judge if you want, we are all going to die some day.
I intend to deserve it."
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention."-Duguet
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey."-Babs Hoffman
"The world is meaningless. There is no God or Gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose. All meaning is man-made so make your own and make it well. Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die. Do not try to 'find yourself', you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other than that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, 'This is who I make myself.'
Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that which imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck you!". Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning but it is a blank on which to paint meanings of your own canvas.
Live deliberately. You are free."
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."-Andre Gide
"The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care."-Hugh Macleod
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
"Fuck life. Fuck routine.
Fuck not giving a shit about anything.
Fuck being stuck in the same place.
Fuck feeling like you're wasting your life.
Fuck feeling awkward and inadequate.
Fuck being this young and feel like you've already shriveled and died.
Fuck the emptiness that holds over you.
Fuck anger. Fuck bitterness.
Fuck not being numb enough.
Fuck this song that's stuck in my head.
Fuck trends. Fuck stereotypes.
Fuck self-loathing. Fuck feelings.
Fuck reasons.
Fuck not making any sense.
And most importantly, Fuck you."
"If I were to suggest between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."-Bertrand Russel
