Atheism Quotes by Sam Harris

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

— Sam Harris

Theology is ignorance with wings.

— Sam Harris

“Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.”

— Sam Harris

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

— Sam Harris

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

— Sam Harris

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

— Sam Harris

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

— Sam Harris

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.”

— Sam Harris

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

— Sam Harris

Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth…

— Sam Harris

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots…

— Sam Harris

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended,…

— Sam Harris

“Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racism, or politics ever can, as it is the only form…

— Sam Harris

Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates…

— Sam Harris

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of…

— Sam Harris

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal…

— Sam Harris

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have…

— Sam Harris

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific…

— Sam Harris

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal…

— Sam Harris

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.…

— Sam Harris

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris

About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our…

— Sam Harris

It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer…

— Sam Harris

Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own…

— Sam Harris

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or…

— Sam Harris

“It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was…

— Sam Harris

Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His…

— Sam Harris

“It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to…

— Sam Harris

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their…

— Sam Harris

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the…

— Sam Harris

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.…

— Sam Harris

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation…

— Sam Harris

To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran…

— Sam Harris

It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief…

— Sam Harris

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We…

— Sam Harris

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large,…

— Sam Harris

“We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is…

— Sam Harris

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,…

— Sam Harris