Atheism Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Why do men go to zoos?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Christianity is such a silly religion.

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

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

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

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

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

I am a daylight atheist.

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.

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

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.