Atheism Quotes
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.
I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.
I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
