Atheism Quotes · Page 33

“Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.”

— Daya Kudari

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

— Israel Zangwill

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

— Billy Graham

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

— George Carlin

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

— Thomas Hobbes

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

— Alister E. McGrath

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

— Christopher Reeve

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." ( Notebooks )”

— Voltaire

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and…

— Harriet Martineau

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

— Robert Boyle

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

— Paul Davies

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and…

— George Orwell

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during…

— Herbert Spencer

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link…

— Ernesto Cardenal

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for…

— David Lowery

Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to…

— Joseph Leon Blau

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are…

— Immanuel Kant

Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of…

— Joseph Leon Blau

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…

— Isaac Asimov

“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the…

— Christopher Hitchens

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to…

— Anonymous

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to…

— Morris Sullivan

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…

— Bertrand Russell

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of…

— Christopher Hitchens

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

— Kedar Joshi

Thinking globally does not mean thinking socially.

— Ilkin Santak

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

— Emile M. Cioran

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

— William Blake

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

— Andre Gide

“Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.”

— C.J. Anderson

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec