Atheism Quotes

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

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.

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.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.