Atheist Quotes

[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.

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

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.

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

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his fri...

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

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an inno...

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

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

… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any hol...

I am part of a minority that is deeply misunderstood. People have very confused ideas about us. Many...

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...

There is no higher authority.

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmo...

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the ob...

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must ...

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni...

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and pref...

No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god.""Therefore It Is A Religious Posi...

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,...

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, h...

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggl...

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or...

Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, in...

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised a...

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to d...

The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what ...

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livabl...

Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an od...

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it give...

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence ag...

Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou...

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist...

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stri...

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful tha...

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re...

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for s...

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decim...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. T...

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that...

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to ...

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without know...

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,...

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

I'm a born-again atheist.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perce...