Atheism Quotes · Page 24

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

— Gary Sloan

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

— Immanuel Kant

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

— Socrates

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

— William S. Burroughs

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

— George Orwell

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

— Michael Palin

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

— Louis Pasteur

I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I…

— Anonymous

It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,…

— Helen H. Gardener

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of…

— Victor Hugo

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily…

— Alan Barth

The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach…

— Adolf Hitler

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of…

— Sean O'Casey

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be…

— Martin Luther

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about…

— Charles Bradlaugh

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…

— Werner Gitt

“Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God), it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of…

— N.D. Wilson

“The term ‘atheist,’” Kirsch continued, “should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘nonastrologer’ or a ‘nonalchemist.’…

— Dan Brown

If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me…

— Isaac Asimov

“Let us learn hence, (1.) That atheism is folly, and atheists are the greatest fools in nature; for they see there is…

— Matthew Henry

“[ From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still,…

— Robert Altman

“The truth is that the greatest enemy of the Western church is not the state or any ideology such as atheism, but…

— Os Guinness

“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way…

— Christopher Hitchens

A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

— George Orwell

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

— Lucretius

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

— Thomas Hobbes

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

— Emily Dickinson

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.

— Bill Hicks

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

— Francis Bacon