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Atheism and morality quotes (view source)
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Below are some quotes on '''[[atheism]] and morality''':
Below are some quotes on '''[[atheism]] and morality''':
[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
{{Cquote|And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. 'The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,' he said, 'and now you're rotting in prison!' He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them.<ref>(Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Pevear-Volokhonsky translation 1990, p. 589</ref>}}
* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>
* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>