Atheism Quotes

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

I am without religious feeling.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.