Atheism Quotes

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

God is a book I can no longer read.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own, ' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)

The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.

بحكم المنطق الداخلي للأشياء يتوازى كل من التطور و الحضارةو العلم والطوبيا مع الإلحاد، بينما يتوازى الخلق والثقافة و الفن و الأخلاق مع الدين.

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

What Is A Belief?

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

A belief is not true because it is useful

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

In the beginning Man created God and in the image of Man created he him.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.

Not only is this not love I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them.

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

Choosing comfort over knowledge is a sign of a weak mind..

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, " said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?