Atheist Quotes
1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
— Taslima Nasrin
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
— Ilka Chase
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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
— Marcus Aurelius
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a…
— Bertrand Russell
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on…
— Frank Zappa
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I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it…
— Hippocrates
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Every one starts out being an atheist.
— Andy Rooney
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When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had…
— Brad Pitt
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You are all stardust.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.
— Simon Hoggart
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
— Richard Dawkins
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
— Christopher Hitchens
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If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
— Carl Sagan
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.
— Richard Dawkins
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An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now,…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
— Jean Rostand
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
— Jesse Ventura
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No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
— George H. W. Bush
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was…
— Albert Einstein
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I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
— Luis Bunuel
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Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
— George Carlin
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Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
— Gene Roddenberry
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
— H. L. Mencken
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