Atheist Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

— Richard Dawkins

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

— Richard Dawkins

“To hell with you, Buddy. No policeman wants to protect a goddamned atheist. I hope somebody bloodies you up good.”

— Richard Dawkins

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god…

— Richard Dawkins

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

— Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...

— Richard Dawkins

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian…

— Richard Dawkins

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

— Richard Dawkins

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

— Richard Dawkins

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

— Richard Dawkins

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

— Richard Dawkins

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to…

— Richard Dawkins

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

— Richard Dawkins

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by…

— Richard Dawkins

“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a…

— Richard Dawkins

The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it…

— Richard Dawkins

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has…

— Richard Dawkins

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least…

— Richard Dawkins

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…

— Richard Dawkins

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly…

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…

— Richard Dawkins

“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately…

— Richard Dawkins

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's…

— Richard Dawkins

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

— Richard Dawkins

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god…

— Richard Dawkins

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

— Richard Dawkins

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

— Richard Dawkins

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves…

— Richard Dawkins

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not…

— Richard Dawkins

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden…

— Richard Dawkins

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them…

— Richard Dawkins

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to…

— Richard Dawkins

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things.…

— Richard Dawkins