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I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.


Mikhail Bakunin

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ELIZABETH KALES Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
VOLTAIRE If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
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MYLYN YAMPAN If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
STEVE ALLEN After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would s...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had existed I should have discovered h...
THOMAS HARDY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO -She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mi...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC I need you with me, Raven. You chase away the shadows and lighten the terrible load that threatens t...
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BYRON KATIE How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
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BETH MOORE If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
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KELLY JONES If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to...
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ERIQ LA SALLE When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'thr...
JOHN PIPER How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, a...
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CHRISTINE FEEHAN If I could say to him, 'No, you cannot drink,' and know he wouldn't, that would be a wonderful situa...
PAT ANDERSON His hand cupped her face, his thumb caressing the delicate line of her jaw. “Listen to me, Raven.�...
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FRANK SINATRA I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be [doi...
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GENE ROBINSON We have to be the bearers of bad news and if we find anything we would be a God send to find him.
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CONRAD BLACK It Will Be As If I Never Existed
STEPHENIE MEYER When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates to...
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CARLES PUYOL 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should p...
MARK TWAIN Since he was the son of God, he was really special. He cared about everybody, so God made him come b...
EMILY DAWSON Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 We say, and we say openly, and while ye t...
TERTULLIAN It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now thi...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have ...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would b...
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ANATOLE FRANCE If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE As far as murder, and murdering him, someone murdered my son; I don't think it has anything to do wi...
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically ...
MORRISSEY God sense little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do ...
PHIL STEER He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had ...
GEORGE ORWELL With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never...
CARLYLE LABUSCHAGNE And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th...
GRAHAM GREENE It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely...
PETER KREEFT I would really hope that if my children, God forbid, ever went missing, somebody would do the same,
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SUKARNO Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When peopl...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if ...
DON YOUNG I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, t...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you ...
GLENN BECK I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
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MIKHAIL MARGELOV From this point of view the nuclear plant does not constitute any threat to the non-proliferation re...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We expect Slovakia to join in the creation of four common Russia-EU spaces and the enhancement of co...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an a...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Reagan was a statesman who, despite all disagreements that existed between our countries at the time...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV One can speak of sanctions only after the appearance of concrete facts proving that Iran is not enga...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is no...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Sanctions could only be discussed when evidence is provided that Iran is pursuing not only peaceful ...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only the Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in a...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The adoption of a commitment on ending cooperation with this or that state in some sphere lies exclu...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The Iranian government has made no positive steps demanded in the February 4 resolution of the board...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the wo...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Russia will strictly abide by the existing agreements and contracts with Western partners in the del...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Despite the intensive three-year work, the IAEA cannot yet make a conclusion about the absence of un...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV While adhering to his convictions, with which one could agree or disagree, he was not dogmatic; he w...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
MIKHAIL DUDAN Russia's position is that status issues must be discussed at the third stage of talks within the Joi...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the sam...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV devotion to his followers is a remarkable example to all of us.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV There is no love sincerer than the love of food
GEORGE MIKHAIL [Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the po...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the ...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For...
MIKHAIL PROKHOROV I made it to protect the motherland.
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign M...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN Only when you get closer do you see individual sources that make up the glow.
MIKHAIL REVNIVTSEV