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Best Atheism Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
- Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an…
- We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is…
- How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less…
- I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
- There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished…
- If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
- The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of…
- Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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