Atheism Quotes

1894 Atheism quotes by 757 unique authors

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody… — Theodore Dreiser
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel… — Douglas Adams
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists… — Garrett Hardin
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy… — Bill Hicks
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less. — Dan Barker
I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job. — George W. Bush
I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians. — Bill Maher
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a… — Baron d'Holbach
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… — Christopher Hitchens
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the… — Andy Rooney
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention… — Howard Zinn
The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children. — Albert Einstein
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true. — Albert Einstein
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. — Joss Whedon
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of… — David Attenborough
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny… — Brennan Manning
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable. — H. L. Mencken
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is… — Bertrand Russell
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think… — Richard Dawkins
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping… — Julian Huxley

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