I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
“You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it.… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”).… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness… No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't want to die. I can't wrap my head around the concept of death because I'm totally atheist. There's nothing after… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image