Atheism Quotes

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.