Atheist Quotes
1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors
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In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children…
— Marshall Fritz
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In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.
— Jethro Tull
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.
— Arnulf Øverland
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What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all…
— Arnulf Øverland
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All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
— Pierre Charron
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Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?
— Robert M. Price
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For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
— Unknown Author
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
— Richard Dawkins
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to…
— John Dewey
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I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
— Charles Dickens
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
— Bernard Katz
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church…
— John F. Kennedy
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Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
— Fran Lebowitz
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
— Marquis de Sade
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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The last Christian died on a cross.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
— Desmond Tutu
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind…
— C.S. Lewis
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
— C.S. Lewis
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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