Atheism Quotes · Page 67

“Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.”

— Lionel Suggs

Of course the state symbols should be respected and especially the large bills of the state.

— Ilkin Santak

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

— Bill Gaede

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

— John William Draper

“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.”

— J.Adam Snyder

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

— Archibald MacLeish

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at…

— Frank Herbert

Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It…

— Sam Keen

There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a…

— Gordon Stein

Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs…

— Taslima Nasrin

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and…

— Bill Maher

There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,…

— Francis Collins

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place…

— David Hillis

If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines…

— William Graham Sumner

“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way…

— Matt Dillahunty

“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our…

— Daniel Jones

However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can…

— Antony Flew

“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain…

— Arthur Miller

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does…

— Swami Vivekananda

Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades…

— Ted Nugent

I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

— Francis Bacon

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

— John Locke

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

— Charles Chilton Moore

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are…

— Protagoras

“Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts”

— Clive Barker

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need…

— Carl Sagan

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

— Antony Flew

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

— Albert Einstein

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

— Woody Allen

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has…

— Benjamin Wiker

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

— Richard Dawkins

“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.”

— M.F. Moonzajer