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Atheist Quotes

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” – Richard Dawkins

 

“She believed in nothing. Only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

 

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei

 

“A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.” – Pat Buckley

 

“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.” — Austin O’Malley

 

“Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.” – Richard Dawkins

“Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

 

“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.” – Kane

 

“I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” – Carl Sagan

 

“Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.” — C. S. Lewis                                         

“I don’t believe in God, I believe in facts” – Unknown

 

“I’m an atheist, do you have a problem with that” – Unknown (Atheist Quotes)

                                           

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” – Isaac Asimov

                                                                             

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

 

“Imagine that the brain is a computer and that religion is a virus. Atheism is the wiping of that virus.” ― Nick Harding

 

“I don’t believe in God, I am the God” – Unknown

“A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.” — Jean De La Bruyere

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” ― St. Thomas Aquinas                                                                                                 

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.” – Epicurus

 

“I die as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.” – Voltairine de Cleyre

 

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.” – Emile Zola

 

“If this is not atheism, to acknowledge no other deity besides dead and senseless matter, then the word has no significance.” — Ralph Cudworth

 

“I don’t believe in God, I believe in me and the truth” – Unknown

 

“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism — that’s the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.” – John Adams

 

“Don’t tell me stories, tell me the truth” – Unknown

 

“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.” ― Ricky Gervais

 

“It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.” ― Steve Allen

 

“We have a choice. Have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.” – Sam Harris

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.” – C.S. Lewis

 

“Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it deprived human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.” — Francis Bacon

 

“I am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have.” – Isaac Asimov

Atheist Quotes by Famous Personalities

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton                                                     

“Belief is the death of intelligence.” – Robert Anton Wilson

 

“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” – Mikhail Bakunin

 

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?” – Chuck Palahniuk

 

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.” – Edmond de Goncourt

“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.” ― Haruki Murakami

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” – Albert Einstein

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has every believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins

 

“If it turns out there is a God… the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.” – Woody Allen

 

“Atheist because God sending himself to sacrifice himself to save us from himself is a little bit much for any logical person.” – Unknown (Atheist Quotes)

“Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood or believing in God.” – Scott Dikkers

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing-all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.” – Gene Roddenberry

 

“I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. Really tried to believe that, but I have to tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realise, something is fucked up.” – George Carlin

 

“Studied every page of this book, and didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.” ― Ruth Hurmence Green

 

“Since ancient times, the philosophers’ secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he’s utterly indifferent to our individual affairs–but we can’t let the rabble know that; it’s the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own.” ― Robert J. Sawyer

 

“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.” – Bill Hicks

“Though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.” ― Christopher Hitchens

 

“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.” ― George Santayana

 

“I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.” – Isaac Asimov

 

“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.” ― Albert Einstein

 

“God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you’re taking away from God; you don’t need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries.” ― Richard Feynman

 

Motivational Atheist Quotes on Religion, God, Life and Atheism as a whole

“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn’t exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.” – Scott Dikkers

“The theory that religion is a force for peace, does not fit the fact of its history.” – Steven Pinker

 

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” – Christopher Hitchens

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” – Richard Dawkins                                                                                                                     

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” – Aleister Crowley

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” – Lord Byron

 

“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.” ― Al-Maʿarri

 

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.” – Mark Twain

“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.” ― Tim Minchin

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a religion.” – Robert M. Pirsig

 

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

 

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.” – Seven Weinberg

“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with ‘you’ in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.” ― Christopher Hitchens

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

 

“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.” ― George Carlin

 

“I don’t profess any religion; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.’” – Philip Pullman

 

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason.” – Christopher Hitchens (Atheist Quotes and Sayings)

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.” – Christopher Hitchens

 

“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with ‘winning or losing this game of chess.” ― Marcel Duchamp

 

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.” – Emmett F. Fields

Short and Funny Atheist Quotes 

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.” – George Carlin

“Agnostics are just atheists without balls.” – Stephen Colbert

 

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.” – George Bernard Shaw   

 

“By night an atheist half believes in God.” — Edward Young

 

“I have no need for religion; I have a conscience.” — Unknown (Atheist Quotes)

                                                     

“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.” — Ronald Knox

“All children are atheists; they have no idea of God.” ― Paul-Henri Holbach

 

“You talked about hell as if you’re born and raised there.” – Mark Gungor

                              

“If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion.” – Unknown

 

“A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.” — Honore De Balzac 

 

“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” – Henny Youngman

“Being considered strange because you don’t believe in a magic man living in the sky.” – Unknown

 

“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” – Movie: “House”

“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.” – Unknown

 

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