Atheism Quotes

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Religion is a collective insanity.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

No one ever dies an atheist.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.