Atheism Quotes · Page 72

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

— Mark Twain

“We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the…

— Amanda Donohoe

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

— Thomas Hobbes

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

— Roger Waters

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot…

— Judith Hayes

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

— James Harvey Robinson

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do…

— Emma Goldman

Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever…

— Phyllis McGinley

It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be…

— John Hagee

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the…

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,…

— Edgar Lee Masters

Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information…

— James A.C. Brown

Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice…

— Ilkin Santak

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying…

— Stephen Levine

Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our…

— E. O. Wilson

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does…

— C. Wright Mills

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to…

— Pierre Bayle

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have…

— Thomas Paine

Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There…

— Paul Kurtz

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…

— C.S. Lewis

“In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and…

— Thomas Nagel

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

— Wolfgang Pauli

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the…

— Woody Allen

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with…

— William Shakespeare

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

— Goldwin Smith

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

— H. J Eckenrode

“...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]”

— Anonymous

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

— Aristophanes

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

— Leo Tolstoy

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

— Philip Schaff

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

“I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each…

— Katharine Hepburn

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

— Judith Hayes

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

— Emily Dickinson

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan