Atheism Quotes

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Then why did you tell me?

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.