There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life? — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun. — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.” — Larry Hannant Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM! — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image