Atheist Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind…

— Julianna Baggott

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

— Steven Weinberg

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

— Sam Harris

In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if…

— Bill Maher

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at…

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

“...evil is not always opposed to religion. Indeed, when evil appropriates the ideals and institutions of religion, the results are far more damaging than…

— Bill Ellis

“The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars;”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the world. Bad religion teaches…

— Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss…

— Louis D. Brandeis

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a…

— Anonymous