Atheism Quotes · Page 2

“What Is A Belief?”

— Maxime Daigle

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Do not make gods in your own images.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I think it's a bit excessive.

— Stephen Reinhardt

“Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.”

— Steve Dustcircle

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”

— Abhijit Naskar

All bibles are man-made.

— Thomas A. Edison

It all depends what you mean by.

— C. E. M. Joad

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

— George Orwell

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

— William S. Burroughs

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

— Socrates

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

— Lucretius

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

— Lord Kelvin

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

— Kevin Smith

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

— Nick Matzke

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after…

— Francis Crick

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

— Mark Twain

“No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept…

— Abhijit Naskar

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him…

— A.C. Grayling

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be…

— James Madison

Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle…

— Natalie Angier

“The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love…

— C.J. Anderson

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it…

— John Chancellor

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they…

— Thomas Hobbes

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors……

— Frederick Douglass

While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of…

— Adolf Hitler

“A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christian who…

— Abhijit Naskar

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural…

— George H. Smith

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“[ When asked what he wants for his tombstone epitaph ] Since I'm an atheist, and have no belief whatsoever in life…

— Richard Bartle