Atheism Quotes

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Do I believe? God only knows.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.