Atheism Quotes

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lu...

So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference bet...

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t...

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...

A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem...

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief....And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in...

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well,...

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated...

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily ...

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily p...

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – underst...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take t...

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I ...

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you someho...

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I...

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more ...

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

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the...

I never heard enough damnation from your pulpit. Many mornings I had to strain to take hold of what ...

In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse ...

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals ...

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the should...

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources i...

Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to t...

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that th...

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

The absence of theistic bel

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impul...

The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambi...

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body fro...

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. No...

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distribut...

Chance favors the prepared mind.

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...

What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces...

An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that de...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and...

I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universiti...

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., ar...

It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of rel...

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusor...

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth t...

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and...

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Grea...

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

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not...

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum phys...

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest tha...

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism...

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have th...

Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of...

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just ...

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the h...

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of bein...

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant f...

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be...

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied streng...

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent for...