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Atheist Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism.…
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that…
- Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
- The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a…
- We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
- When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
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