Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

• I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Feet, Trying

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Truth, Freedom, Men

  Discurso de Charles Bradlaugh en el Hall of Science (hacia 1880), citado en Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Atheist, Mean

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• Liberty's chief foe is theology.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Liberty, Chiefs

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Long, People, Atheism

  Marsden Gibson, Charles Bradlaugh (1889*). “Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne”

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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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  Atheist, Men, Circles

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Doubt, Atheism, Term

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Mejor mil veces abusar de la libertad de expresión que negarla.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Libertad de expresión, abusos y censura en los libros

  Discurso de Charles Bradlaugh en el Hall of Science (hacia 1880), citado en Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Cristiano, Tomado, Bíblico

  Marsden Gibson, Charles Bradlaugh (1889*). “Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne”

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• Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheist, Effort, Atheism

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• Sin libertad de expresión no es posible la búsqueda de la Verdad; sin libertad de expresión no es útil el descubrimiento de la Verdad.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Descubrimiento, libertad de expresión, censura en los libros

  Discurso de Charles Bradlaugh en el Hall of Science (hacia 1880), citado en Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Jesus, Honesty, Teaching

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.366, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ideas, Atheism, Would Be

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

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• [That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Funeral, Atheism, Body

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• En la Cruz, el Jesús de los Cuatro Evangelios, que era Dios, gritó Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado? Dios no puede abandonarse a sí mismo, Jesús era Dios mismo. Sin embargo, Dios abandonó a Jesús, y éste gritó para saber por qué había sido abandonado. Cualquier divino capaz explicará que por supuesto lo sabía, y que no estaba abandonado. La explicación hace difícil creer el grito de muerte, y el pasaje se convierte en uno de los misterios de la santa religión cristiana, que, a menos que un hombre crea correctamente, sin duda perecerá para siempre.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Cristiano, Jesús, Creer

  Charles Bradlaugh (2016). “Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  War, Ideas, Being Positive

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Spiritual, Jesus, Men

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• There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Public Opinion, Court

  Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”

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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.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Strong, Regret, Memories

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• Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Doe, Positive Atheism

  "Letters", reason.com. February 1976.

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• Si cuando me calumnian no hago caso, el mundo cree la calumnia. Si demando, tengo que pagar unas cien libras de costas por el privilegio, y ganar la moneda más pequeña que el país conoce como recompensa.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Country, Believe, Atheism

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• ¿Sostendrá alguien, salvo el más intolerante, que no es una ganancia segura para la humanidad difundir la incredulidad en la terrible doctrina de que el tormento eterno es el destino probable de la gran mayoría de la familia humana?

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Fate, Humanity, Atheism

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.135, Library of Alexandria

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• El abuso muere en un día; pero la negación mata la vida del pueblo y entumece la esperanza de la raza.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ignorancia, Raza, Gente

  Discurso de Charles Bradlaugh en el Hall of Science (hacia 1880), citado en Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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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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  Men, Atheism, Age

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.119, Library of Alexandria

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• If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Should Have, Honor, Special

  Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”

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