Skip to content

It is not Bradlaugh's atheism which they hate, but his unconscious Christianity.

— John Bright

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

Charles Bradlaugh had refused to swear an oath to God that was required of an elected candidate to the House of Commons before they could take their seat

Topics

Christianity

More quotes by John Bright

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

I have never uttered a word in favour of universal suffrage either in this House or elsewhere.

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reform — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times.

This excessive love for "the balance of power" is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

All John Bright quotes →

You may also like

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Bright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.