Atheism Quotes · Page 140

“Is apathy not the nature of God?”

— Lionel Suggs

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

— Anonymous

“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in…

— Autumn Christian

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

— William Shakespeare

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when…

— Martin Amis

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy

It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;…

— Charles Darwin

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

“As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings…

— Rowan Atkinson

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal."…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men…

— Robert E Lane

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be…

— John Stuart Mill

Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about…

— Max Born

“When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.”

— Anonymous

“You must abolish your slavery yourselves. Do not depend for its abolition upon god or a superman. Remember that it is not…

— B.R. Ambedkar

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge…

— Bill Gates

“I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.”

— Pierre Berton