Quotes by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

About Madalyn Murray O'Hair:

Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an American atheist activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986. She created the first issues of American Atheist Magazine. One of her sons, Jon Garth Murray, became the nominal president of the organization from 1986 to 1995, but she remained de facto president during these nine years.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

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I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

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Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of ...

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I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliate...

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An Atheist is a person who questions every kind of authority, and this is the thing that is important. Because if we can, without blinking an eye, question the ultimate authority, god - who must be obeyed, then we can question the authority of the st...

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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

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This religion gives you goals which are outside of reality. It enriches your fantasy life with ugliness. It fills you with ideas of guilt over the most common human experiences -- usually related to sex. In this room, right now, each of you, in your ...

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I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three wor...

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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

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The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like t...

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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vani...

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Author Bio

  • NameMadalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Descriptionatheist
  • BornApril 13, 1919
  • DiedSeptember 29, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America