Atheism Quotes

Death pays all debts.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

I regret my disbelief in God.

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.