Atheism Quotes · Page 57

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I…

— Pierre Bayle

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can…

— Walt Whitman

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

— Tertullian

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

— Jerry Falwell

“But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes…

— Penn Jillette

The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who…

— William J. Brennan

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

— Justin Villanueva

Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in…

— Dave Hunt

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which…

— Voltaire

“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve…

— Sean Kamali

One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester…

— Charles Eliot Norton

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus…

— Isaac Asimov

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It's a random universe. Shit happens. Good people get stage 4 cancer and dipshits win the lottery. There is no justice. Everything…

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I…

— Natalie Angier

Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the…

— Frances Wright

“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less…

— Flaubert Gustave

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my…

— Dan Barker

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the…

— Victor J. Stenger

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

— Peter Kreeft

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

— James Russell Lowell

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

— Dan Barker

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

— Albert Einstein

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and…

— Charles Chilton Moore

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

— Al Smith

People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave.

— Anonymous

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.”

— Aron Ra

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

— Jack Steinberger

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

— Samuel Rutherford

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess…

— Francis Bacon

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

— Mark Thomas

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

— Henry David Thoreau