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Atheism Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
- The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
- Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
- Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
- Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
- I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
- Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all…
- The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
- To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
- Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and…
- Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary…
- Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it…
- Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
- The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
- Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
- In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed…
- I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'…
- I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,…
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
- The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he…
More Atheism Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon
- You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. — Tammy Faye Bakker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. — Brigitte Bardot
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey