Atheism Quotes

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

The universe is a put-up job.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Atheism is too theological.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.