Atheism Quotes · Page 11

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

— Tertullian

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

— Luis Bunuel

The supernatural does not exist.

— Camille Flammarion

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Atheism has no room for human rights.

— Richard Halverson

The saints are in the black list.

— Ilkin Santak

Morality does not depend on religion.

— John Ruskin

Progress is a comfortable disease.

— e. e. cummings

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

— Robert Plant

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

— Ernie Pyle

“The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I prefer to help, than ask beyond for help.

— Ryan Nagen

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

— Akbar Ahmed

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

— Richard Dawkins

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too…

— Frank Zappa

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

— George Santayana

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state…

— Ronald Reagan

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

— Lucretius

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes people have been stepping so long, they have forgotten what it's like to be stepped on.”

— Lauren Lilly Conrad

Practical atheism is when you act the same way as an atheist does even when you believe in God.

— Bill Johnson

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there…

— Dan Barker

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are…

— James A. Michener

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his…

— Thomas Jefferson

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it…

— Arthur C. Clarke

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and…

— Harriet Martineau

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written.…

— A. A. Milne

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world.…

— Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabre

“I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All…

— Jeffrey Tayler

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not…

— Pat Condell

“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or…

— Matt McCormick

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris