Atheism Quotes · Page 78

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

— Richard Steele

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”

— Stifyn Emrys

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

— Pope Pius XII

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

— Shane Claiborne

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

— Francis Bacon

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

— Archibald MacLeish

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would…

— Martin Amis

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with…

— Henry F. Schaefer, III

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and…

— Adolf Hitler

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious…

— Billy Graham

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be…

— Richard Leakey

I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I…

— Howard Stern

“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have…

— Christopher Hitchens

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do…

— Albert Einstein

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural…

— Max Lerner

In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most…

— John William Draper

“Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we’re all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded,…

— T.K. Decker

“And one thing you would never want to do is keep your children away from any Tree of Knowledge. How could you…

— Aron Ra

“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not…

— Albert Einstein

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

— John Locke

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need…

— Carl Sagan

“Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts”

— Clive Barker

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are…

— Protagoras

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

— Charles Chilton Moore

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

— Woody Allen

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

— Albert Einstein

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

— Antony Flew

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

Of course the state symbols should be respected and especially the large bills of the state.

— Ilkin Santak

“Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.”

— Lionel Suggs

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

— Bill Gaede

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.”

— J.Adam Snyder