Atheism Quotes

I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'...

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility...

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explan...

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.Kha...

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist...

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it i...

Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and ...

What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe somet...

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have t...

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be c...

It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal fa...

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend....

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece thos...

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why shou...

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most he...

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals its...

Decide for yourselves as to what you should thing of those who say there is God, that he is the pres...

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine p...

I will not subject you to a restraint, in the manner of scriptures and ancient works, by stating tha...

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believ...

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutc...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which w...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reaso...

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is...

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it '...

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to u...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser)At the chapel door he [a priest associated with...

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to thi...

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form the...

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being...

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to ...

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a pai...

All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct ...

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself with...

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable positi...

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a preci...

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go ...

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the l...

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which...

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle ...

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

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer...

It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Eve...

It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself w...

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the ...

There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can de...

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rati...

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is fou...

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the quest...

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by ...

We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but...

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and ...

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and conti...

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

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

I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the mo...

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Scie...

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to di...

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtu...

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're...

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion...

belief is the death of intelligence.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

Consider the enormity of the problem. Science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a ...

There is a strange ring of feeling and emotion in these reactions [of scientists to evidence that th...

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream...

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by ...

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

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

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence preciou...

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner ...

You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided out...

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial expla...