Atheist Quotes

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

A comprehended god is no god.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

I think; therefore I am.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.