Atheism Quotes · Page 13

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

— Soren Kierkegaard

... inventions and purely human institutions.

— Jean Meslier

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

— Mark Twain

The concepts of social equality and social justice are not always the same.

— Ilkin Santak

“The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.”

— Aron Ra

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

— William Hurrell Mallock

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

— Horace Mann

“Worry is a form of atheism. And so is most fear.”

— Arianna Huffington

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

— Elbert Hubbard

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational…

— Karen Armstrong

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

— Lord Acton

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

— Thomas Hobbes

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

— Luther Burbank

“One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a” FALSE PROMISE”.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

— Vera Kistiakowsky

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding

— Plato

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right…

— Al Smith

“I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in…

— Clarence Darrow

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and…

— Thomas Paine

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the…

— Penn Jillette

“How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no…

— Virginia Woolf

As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without…

— John William Draper

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were…

— Don Marquis

“[T]he changing, functional, causal, and conditioned world, present to ordinary sensory and mental experience, was what was ultimately real. To be real…

— Stephen Batchelor

“One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a…

— Madison Arnold

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of…

— Victor J. Stenger

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed…

— Mark Twain

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --…

— Albert Einstein

Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Communism begins where atheism begins...

— Karl Marx

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

— Mikhail Bakunin

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

— Michael Newdow

Religion is as harmless as a toddler with a handgun.

— Rock Cowles

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

— Joss Whedon

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are two types of egoism high and primitive.

— Ilkin Santak