Atheism Quotes

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

Richard Dawkins

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."

C.S. Lewis

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

Christopher Hitchens

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

Christopher Hitchens

"All thinking men are atheists."

Ernest Hemingway

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition."

Woody Allen

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Thomas Jefferson

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

Isaac Asimov

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

Napoléon Bonaparte

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

Epicurus

"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."

Emmett F. Fields

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"

Christopher Hitchens

"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."

Albert Camus

"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

Mark Twain

"belief is the death of intelligence."

Robert Anton Wilson

"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

Woody Allen

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

Christopher Hitchens

"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad."

Aleister Crowley

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."

Robert M. Pirsig

"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."

Carl Sagan

"We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid."

Christopher Hitchens

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Steven Weinberg

"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."

Christopher Hitchens

"I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]"

Philip Pullman

"I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up."

George Carlin

"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."

Woody Allen

"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!"If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept."

Dan Barker

"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."

Christopher Hitchens

"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."

Christopher Hitchens

"If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it."

Haruki Murakami

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C.S. Lewis

"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."

Christopher Hitchens

"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."

Bill Hicks

"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."

Émile Zola

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

Carl Sagan

"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."

Christopher Hitchens

"So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?"

Jim Butcher

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals."

Christopher Hitchens

"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."

Edmond de Goncourt

"The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit."

Richard Pryor

"I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful."

Stephen Hawking

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

Thomas Aquinas

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

Napoléon Bonaparte

"We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper."

Sam Harris

"Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God."

Scott Dikkers

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