Atheism Quotes · Page 187

Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises…

— James Madison

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

— Giordano Bruno

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism…

— Ray Comfort

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

— Marilyn Manson

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

— Thomas Huxley

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same…

— Justin Villanueva

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do…

— Albert Einstein

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the…

— Albert Einstein

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

— John Fante

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel…

— John Quincy Adams

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world…

— Loring M. Black Jr

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that…

— Bertrand Russell

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

— Bertrand Russell

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given…

— George Santayana

“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason;…

— Erasmus Darwin

“With the first jolt he was in daylight; they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under blue sky. Tunnels…

— E.M. Forster

The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how…

— Chet Raymo

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures;…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

— Pierre Bayle

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout…

— Katha Pollitt

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

— Pope Boniface VIII

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney…

— Michel de Montaigne