Madalyn Murray O'Hair quotes

Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an American writer and prominent activist for atheism and the separation of church and state. Her legal actions led to the landmark Supreme Court decision that banned mandatory Bible readings in U.S. public schools. She became known as "the most hated woman in America" for her outspoken views on religion. Here are 13 of her quotes:

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

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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 that.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times.... He is beyond human forgiveness.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair