Atheism Quotes · Page 170

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when…

— Jeremy Taylor

Accurate presentation of thoughts through the correct expressions of words - is an art accumulated for years.

— Ilkin Santak

“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

— Henry de Montherlant

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

— John Selden

“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as…

— Aron Ra

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

— Aldous Huxley

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

— Michael Palin

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction…

— Christopher Hitchens

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and…

— Charles Chilton Moore

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

— Dion Fortune

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and…

— H. L. Mencken

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

— Gustave Le Bon

“God is a hoax. Religion is a scam. Religious politics is a slaughter house.”

— Vidyut

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and…

— Helen H. Gardener

I am too serious to be a patriot.

— Ilkin Santak

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

— Oscar Wilde

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

— Frank Zappa

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced…

— Clarence Darrow

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

— Anonymous

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou…

— Marcus Aurelius

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach