Atheism Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

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.

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.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

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.

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

A functioning police state needs no police.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality