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Headline Tag: Cults and Religions Rating: Amazing Hits: 2222 Comments: 13 Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes Top 80 Best Short Atheist Quotes A collection of great quotes from people such as Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Richard Dawkins, and Gandhi. Some other famous quotes (on the same subject): Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. (Christopher Hitchens) I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. (Bertrand Russell) You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation. (Guillermo Garcia) Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. (Mencken) It is wrong always and everywhere for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence. (William Clifford) I used to believe in God, until I reached the age of reason. (George Carlin) If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. (Woody Allen) Our god is vengeful! Oh spiteful one, show me who to smite and they shall be smoten. (Homer Simpson) Dear lord: I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, give me no sign. Thy will be done. (Homer Simpson) Blasphemy is a victimless crime. (Unknown) God is dead! (Friedrich Nietzsche) User: White_Wolf May 29, 2008 7:23 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 76 Comments: 1 Ayn Rand Interview Part 5 of 5 Ayn Rand Interview Part 5 of 5 Rand held that the only moral social system is laissez-faire capitalism. Her political views were strongly individualist and hence anti-statist and anti-Communist. She exalted what she saw as the heroic American values of rational egoism and individualism. As a champion of rationality, Rand also had a strong opposition to mysticism and religion, which she believed helped foster a crippling culture acting against individual human happiness and success. Rand detested many prominent liberal and conservative politicians of her time, including prominent anti-Communists, such as Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, Hubert Humphrey, and Joseph McCarthy. She opposed US involvement in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, although she also strongly denounced pacifism: "When a nation resorts to war, it has some purpose, rightly or wrongly, something to fight for -- and the only justifiable purpose is self-defense." User: DoGoalie90 Dec 9, 2007 8:05 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 68 Comments: 0 Ayn Rand Interview Part 4 of 5 Ayn Rand Interview Part 4 of 5 Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2, 1905. At age six she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine she decided to make fiction writing her career. Thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism of Russian culture, she thought of herself as a European writer, especially after encountering Victor Hugo, the writer she most admired. User: DoGoalie90 Dec 9, 2007 8:04 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 85 Comments: 0 Ayn Rand Interview Part 3 of 5 Ayn Rand Interview Part 3 of 5 In her first public appearance since husband Frank O'Connor's death, we see a rare personal side of Rand?" As always, the ideas do shine through: the acknowledgement of achievement; the evils of altruism; American schools sacrificing the gifted for the less gifted; the nationalization of American oil interests in the Middle East; the fatal arguments for the existence of God;... and much more. User: DoGoalie90 Dec 9, 2007 8:04 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 81 Comments: 0 Ayn Rand Phil Donahue Interview Part 2 of Ayn Rand Phil Donahue Interview Part 2 of Rand's greatest influence was Aristotle, especially Organon ("Logic"); she considered Aristotle the greatest philosopher.In particular, her philosophy reflects an Aristotelian epistemology and metaphysics -- both Aristotle and Rand argued that "there exists an objective reality that is independent of mind and that is capable of being known."Although Rand was ultimately critical of Aristotle's ethics, others have noted her egoistic ethics "is of the eudemonistic type, close to Aristotle's own...a system of guidelines required by human beings to live their lives successfully, to flourish, to survive as 'man qua man.'" Younkins argued "that her philosophy diverges from Aristotle's by considering essences as epistemological and contextual instead of as metaphysical. She envisions Aristotle as a philosophical intuitivist who declared the existence of essences within concretes." User: DoGoalie90 Dec 8, 2007 8:43 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 94 Comments: 0 Ayn Rand Interview Part 1 of 5 Ayn Rand Interview Part 1 of 5 In her first public appearance since husband Frank O'Connor's death, we see a rare personal side of Rand User: DoGoalie90 Dec 8, 2007 8:42 PM
Headline Tag: Cinema Rating: Good Hits: 359 Comments: 3 The Fountainhead: Howard Roark Speech The Fountainhead: Howard Roark Speech From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland. User: DoGoalie90 Dec 8, 2007 8:27 PM
 
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