18 Quotes by George Holyoake

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

Lord Brougham has said that ’a mind uninformed is better than a mind misinformed.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.

Cosmism, a thoughtful name, which ought to supersede Atheism in the future, neither denies nor affirms the existence of Deity. It waits for explanation and proof. It admits there is evidence of something, but what that something is, does not appear. There is evidence of more than we know, but what that is we do not know, and it is dishonesty to use a term respecting it, which pretends that we do know.

Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.

Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.

The Church is a cell, and the creed is a cage. The cage is lighter, more airy, and less repulsive than the cell, but the imprisonment is complete in both.