Atheism Quotes

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.