Atheist Quotes

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Just ended a conversation with one of America's most famous atheists with "God bless you." Couldn't help it. And I meant it. And he knew it.

Everyday is an atheist holiday.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

An armed society is a polite society.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.