Positive atheism Quotes · Page 16

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

— Thomas Paine

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

— Alfred Goodwin

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

— Aleister Crowley

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

— Bronislaw Malinowski

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

— Robert Browning

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

— H. L. Mencken

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

— Daniel Webster

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

— Margaret Atwood

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

— James Madison

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

— Susan B. Anthony

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

— James A.C. Brown

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

— Gherman Titov

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of…

— Roger Williams

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no…

— Katha Pollitt

Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle…

— Natalie Angier

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in…

— Albert Einstein

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and…

— Harry S. Truman

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more…

— Barbara Tuchman

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at…

— Voltaire

I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was…

— Emma Goldman

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a…

— Pierre Bayle

We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;…

— Samuel Sharpe

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain…

— Marjoe Gortner

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen…

— Phil Donahue

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

— David Feherty

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

— Samuel Johnson

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

— Henry de Montherlant

I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

— Gautama Buddha

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

— Anthony Burgess

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

— Howard Stern

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

— Stephen Jay Gould