Atheism Quotes

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

I am a daylight atheist.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

Why do men go to zoos?

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.