Atheism Quotes

1894 Atheism quotes by 757 unique authors

If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;… — Albert Einstein
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him… — Charles Darwin
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful… — Charles Darwin
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as… — Charles Darwin
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to… — Charles Darwin
Who knows most, doubts most. — Robert Browning
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained… — Robert Owen
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. — Thomas Jefferson
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a… — Thomas Jefferson
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and… — George Washington
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. — Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… — Benjamin Franklin

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