atheist quotes
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top quotes (total: 5365)
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| Stephen Roberts | I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours |
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| Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d. | Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. |
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| Richard Jeni | You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend |
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| Blaise Pascal | Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions |
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| Emo Philips | When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. |
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| Epicurus | Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? |
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| Bertrand Russell | And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence |
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| George Bernard Shaw | The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one |
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| unknown | Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
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| Doug McLeod | I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence |
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| Unknown | Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
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| Unknown | Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
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| Gene Roddenberry | 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 |
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| Richard Lederer (Anguished English) | There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. |
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| Steven Weinberg | With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. |
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| George Carlin | 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.. And if you do any... [more] |
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| Carl Sagan | You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. |
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| Unknown | George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd. |
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| Ferdinand Magellan | The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church |
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| Delos B. McKown | The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike |
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| Aldous Huxley | "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." |
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| Albert Einstein | A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death |
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| unknown | Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish |
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| Marie | Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet |
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| Galileo Galilei | I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them |
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| Carl Sagan | Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence |
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| Unknown | Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
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| Voltaire | Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
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| Bumper sticker | You keep believing, I'll keep evolving |
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| Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney | Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. |
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| Robert A. Heinlein | Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. |
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| John Adams, 2nd President of the United States | The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. |
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| Thomas Jefferson | I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. |
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| William Drummond | He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave |
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| Giulian Buzila | History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. |
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| unknown | People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs |
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| Robert G. Ingersoll | As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? |
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| Benjamin Franklin | The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason |
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| Justin Brown | An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanishe |
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| Gustaf Lindborg | The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail |
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| Justin Brown | If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going? |
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| Coral Yoshi | So you really think that God would plant a bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you're in denial or God has some serious self-esteem issues. |
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| H. L. Mencken | We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart |
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| Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, 1988 | We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. |
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| Russian Proverb | Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. |
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| Arthur C. Clarke | I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. |
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| Terry Pratchett | The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. |
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| Mark Twain | The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also |
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recently added quotes
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
Just because something is "spiritual" does not automatically mean it involves or includes or pertains to a god or organized religious belief system. |
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| jazz |
Ivan's statement on the steady state is a delight, given that it accepts that there have been many universes. do those religionist who read and comment on these pages believe that their deity/deities have made all of these , even the ones that last no ... [more] |
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| jazz |
I'm going to assume that the religionist will claim that, for all our scientific credentials, we must be classed as stupid, after all, we still believe in dinosaurs |
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| jazz |
Perhaps "spirituality" is just that strict moral sensibility that makes us do good without thought of future reward |
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
Jazz, Dinosaur's did exist as we have the hard fossil evidence & a fossil record covering millions of years. But no millions of years evidence for god. |
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
They worship a naked dead man nailed to a cross by hands & feet, blood pouring down his face from a crown of thorns. If that's NOT weird I don't know what is. It still looks like some weird sadomasochistic cult to me. |
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| Jazz |
Indeed, some of them whipped themelves, starved, and peirced their flesh with thorns, are these the acts of men in full control of their faculties? |
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| Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) |
Full control of their faculties? Most of 'em weren't in full control of their bladders!! |
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| Mahesh |
Hinduism is probably the best religion for atheists. God broke six out of the ten commandments to save his creations on earth. We should all follow His ways. |
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| Mahesh |
God passed His message to mankind through a village idiot and he passed it on to bullshitters. Bulshitters passed on the message to suckers. Suckers passed on the message to arseholes, who in turn started killing each other in the name of God. |
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