Religious Quotes by Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

— Richard Dawkins

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

— 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

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

— Richard Dawkins

If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them…

— Richard Dawkins

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest…

— Richard Dawkins

As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard…

— Richard Dawkins

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

— 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

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of…

— Richard Dawkins

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have…

— Richard Dawkins

I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

— Richard Dawkins

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty…

— Richard Dawkins

There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a…

— Richard Dawkins

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

— Richard Dawkins

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

— Richard Dawkins

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made…

— Richard Dawkins

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be…

— Richard Dawkins

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's…

— Richard Dawkins

I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private…

— Richard Dawkins

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive…

— Richard Dawkins

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses…

— Richard Dawkins

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and…

— Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of…

— Richard Dawkins

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way…

— Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical…

— 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