The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. — Douglas Adams 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
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
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
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
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think we atheists should tolerate the religious not because their views are just as valid as ours, but because experience has… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image