Atheist Quotes

1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. — Jean Anouilh
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? — Dan Barker
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. — Thomas Jefferson
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. — Edward Abbey
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God. — Primo Levi
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable. — Elias Canetti
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. — Simone de Beauvoir
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. — Francis Crick
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose,… — Emma Goldman
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage. — H. L. Mencken
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. — John Burroughs
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any. — Thomas Paine
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. — Maynard James Keenan
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams

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