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Atheist Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
- When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul,…
- I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
- The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
- If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of…
- With soap, baptism is a good thing.
- Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
- This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
- As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
- The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
More Atheist Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me… — Jack Black
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family… — Tony Blair