Atheism Quotes

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

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

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

Communism begins where atheism begins.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

Heresy makes for progress.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.