Atheism Quotes

The temerity to believe in nothing.

— Ivan Turgenev

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Look what faith has done to you.

— Malcolm Ribeiro

All Gods were immortal.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

— Ronald Dunn

Information doesn't kill you.

— Frank Zappa

God is just a statistics.

— Marilyn Manson

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

— Pope Innocent III

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

— Herman Melville

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

— Benjamin Franklin

Religion fights for control, free thinkers fight for freedom.

— Jeremy Limn

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

— Hans Schemm

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Gary Sloan

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

— G. Gordon Liddy

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

— William A. Dembski

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea…

— Emma Goldman

“Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for…

— C.J. Anderson

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

— Paul Kurtz

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

— Mark Thomas

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the…

— Hilary of Poitiers

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

— John Stuart Mill

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be…

— Hugo Black

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof…

— Thomas Jefferson

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle…

— Mark Twain

Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to…

— Garrett Hardin

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives…

— Saint Augustine

“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of…

— Christopher Hitchens

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of…

— Roger Williams

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as…

— Huntington Willard

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no…

— Katha Pollitt

“I get my limits from a rational consideration of the consequences of my actions, that's how I determine what's moral. I get…

— Matt Dillahunty

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,…

— Upton Sinclair

“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they…

— Leonard Susskind

Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory…

— Deepak Chopra

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done…

— Charles Caleb Colton