atheist quotes
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top quotes (total: 7626)
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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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| unknown | Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
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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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| Doug McLeod | I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence |
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| Unknown | Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | 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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| Aldous Huxley | "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." |
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| Delos B. McKown | The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike |
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| Marie | Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
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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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| 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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| Napoleon Bonaparte | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet |
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| Carl Sagan | Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Voltaire | Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
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| Unknown | Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Benjamin Franklin | The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Friedrich Nietzsche | Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? |
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| Gustaf Lindborg | The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail |
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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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| Robert G. Ingersoll | As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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recently added quotes
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| Common Man |
It is not possible to write a book of false records with number of witness and followers with a calendar. Also with chain rule witness which is said as customary saying. Even now it is not possible. TORAH IS ALWAYS RIGHT. |
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| Gemere Bey |
I knew I shoulda opened up door #2, god's always behind door #2..... |
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| Common Man |
Human beings depends on food and water and dies after a certain period from ancient times till now[ without counting miracles]. By means of Technology human being can travel to a certain distance into the space. For food and water he is depending sam... [more] |
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| Common Man |
If now there is no open miracles is happening, it does not means there is no miracles had happened in past. If miracles are common then it is known as natural or otherwise it is known as supernatural.TORAH IS ALWAYS RIGHT. |
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| Common Man |
There is plenty of nuclear bombs in this world which can destroy human beings. Human beings are very cruel to each other as per history. History may repeat in terms of cruelty. |
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| Common Man |
Human beings are very racist from ancient times as per history. History may repeat in terms of RASISM. TORAH IS ALWAYS RIGHT. |
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| Vice Versa |
I'm happy to know that i'm weak, for the strength of the Lord will be multiplied in me. |
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| anana moose |
christions invented hell let them burn in it. |
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| Ice Cube |
400 years of gettin' our ass kicked, By so-called christians and catholics. But Ill watch 'em burn in a fire See I'm a g, that's why I ain't in your choir. Cause I see, cause I know, The church ain't nothin' but a fashion show. |
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| John Page |
Why did God even bother to create man if he already knew how it would turn out? |
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