Atheism Quotes
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
