Atheism Quotes

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

Dying is not a crime.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.