Atheist Quotes

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

No one ever dies an atheist.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

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.

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Man created God in his own image.

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.