Quotes by Charles Bradlaugh - Page 1

A mere society form of Atheism.
Charles Bradlaugh / Political Figure
Atheism
Form
Positive Atheism
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Liberty's chief foe is theology.
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Atheism
Chiefs
Liberty
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The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.
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Atheism
Doubt
Term
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Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
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Atheism
Doe
Positive Atheism
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh / Political Figure
Abuse
Censorship In Books
Denial
Free Speech
Freedom Of Speech
Free
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There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
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Atheism
Court
Public Opinion
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
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Discovery
Free Speech
Speech
Truth Is
Useful
Search
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[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
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Atheism
Body
Funeral
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Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.
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Atheism
Atheist
Effort
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Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
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Affirmation
Atheism
Form
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If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.
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Honor
Should Have
Special
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The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
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Ignorance
People
Race
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The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
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Abuse
Denial
Race
Life Hope Day
Life Hope People
Day
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Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
Charles Bradlaugh / Political Figure
Censorship In Books
Discovery
Freedom Of Speech
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I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
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Affirmation
Mean
Sound
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I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
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Christian
Feet
Stride
Trying
Christians
Crawl
Life Your Try
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Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
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Atheism
Gains
Miserable
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I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.
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Atheism
Ideas
Would Be
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Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.
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Mind
Sea
Water
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If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
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Atheism
Believe
Country
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Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.
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Men
Atheist
Circles
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Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?
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Atheism
Fate
Humanity
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Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.
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Jesus
Honesty
Teaching
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The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.
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Age
Men
Atheism
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No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.
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Atheism
Long
People
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The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.
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Religion
Atheist
Christian
Mean
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Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
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Freedom
Men
Truth
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God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.
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Jesus
Men
Spiritual
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I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.
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War
Being Positive
Ideas
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On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
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Jesus
Believe
Christian
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A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.
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Biblical
Christian
Taken
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The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.
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Memories
Regret
Strong
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