Atheism Quotes · Page 35

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

— Paul Rudnick

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is…

— Francis Bacon

“The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this…

— A.C. Grayling

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

— Bill Gaede

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

— Emily Dickinson

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

— Gary Sloan

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

— Elbert Hubbard

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front…

— Natalie Angier

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

— Bertrand Russell

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my…

— Matthew Yglesias

“All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way:…

— Ajay Kansal

“Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.”

— Dennis Prager

“Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and…

— Stefan Molyneux

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the…

— Brennan Manning

“Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.”

— J.Adam Snyder

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda…

— George Pattison

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a…

— Greg Epstein

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty…

— Helen H. Gardener