The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it.… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness… No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family.… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sin is an archery term meaning to miss the mark. If we are born sinners, and God created us that way, didn't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In my hometown, a lot of my friends are very religious and we somehow have found common ground, even though they know… — Bridget Everett Copy Share Image
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image