Chapman Cohen: Man

Chapman Cohen was British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Chapman Cohen: 16 quotes 1 like

“All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones.
I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.”

Chapman Cohen

The Credo of Empowerment, as quoted in David M. Mandell Atheist Acrimonious (Vervante, 2008), p. 176.

Life

“Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.”

Chapman Cohen

Quoted in The Freethinker, Vol. 84 (G.W. Foote, 1964), p. 215.

World , Fear , Religion , Freedom

“The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions.”

Chapman Cohen

[God and the Universe: Eddington, Jeans, Huxley, & Einstein, 128, 1931, Pioneer Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=QmBHAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=happier]