Godless Society Quotes

Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today., the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on Earth

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

There is a reason why you see such an antagonism to religion. Because communism necessitates the destruction of religion for one reason. Communism needs for government to be your God. So there cannot be any alliance to anything but government. So an alliance to God must be destroyed. That's why socialism and anti-religion go together.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.