Atheism Quotes

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Fear first created the gods.

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.