Atheism Quotes

Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.

The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell)

Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist, ' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

On the first day, man created God

No the first day, man crea tee God

science is one, gods are manyscience allows change and accept new tested things but religion notscience laws are same all over earth but religions have different

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.

I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.

Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

It is my belief that when a child has been robbed of their visionary rights that they gravitate toward religion and spirituality in an effort to regain their Subjective autonomy.

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

I believe religious indoctrination is child abuse.

The inner imaginary universe of the human primate is the battlefield of the ages

To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.

Let me make this radiantly clear—if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

I'm a born-again atheist.

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.

There is no higher authority.

Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?