If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“To argue that an unmade being is a contradiction the atheist must explain how they could maintain the concept of an ‘uncaused… — Steve Kumar Copy Share Image
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Theists only ever believe what they want to believe. If a bearded face appears in the wood grain or in a cloud… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
It's unbelievable that so many religious people think 'atheism is just another religion', but it explains why they can't stop attacking atheists! — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image