Atheism Quotes

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

The chimps love holidays - in fact Tatu actually anticipates them and asks about them.

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.