atheist quotes
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top quotes (total: 7626)
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| Unknown | "If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you." |
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| Edith Sitwell | I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. |
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| Annie Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' | Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" |
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| Donald Morgan | Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here. |
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| Frater Ravus | Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. |
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| Unknown | Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10 |
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| Woody Allen | If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse |
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| Richard Dawkins | Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. |
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| Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) | The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. |
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| Douglas Adams | I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. |
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| James Morrow | "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes |
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| Bob Snuka | I refuse to believe in a god that would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
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| Unknown | Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god? |
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| Carl Sagan | 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 ... [more] |
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| Richard Feynman | But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me |
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| Bertrand Russell | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence |
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| Susan B. Anthony | I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. |
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| Penn Jillette | Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. |
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| One of Murphy's laws | A man without religon is like a fish without a bicycle |
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| Stephen Jay Gould | Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most |
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| David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) | To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy |
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| Richard Dawkins | Religion is unusual among divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might had to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label peop... [more] |
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| Peter O\'Toole (The Ruling Class) | Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself |
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| Robert G. Ingersoll | Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? |
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| Albert Einstein | Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | "Faith" means not wanting to know what is true. |
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| Chapman Cohen | Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense |
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| School Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #1 | Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. |
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| Thomas Paine | All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
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| Robert M. Pirsig | When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. |
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| Rev. Ron | Without God, life is everything. |
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| Gypsy Rose Lee | Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere |
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| Frank Zappa | The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. |
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| Ed Krebs | The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. |
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| Voltaire | God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
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| Stephen King | The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window |
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| HSM | The Christian god makes man human, then burns him when he acts like one. |
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| unknown | Blasphemy is a victimless crime |
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| Salvador Dali | Thank god I'm an atheist... |
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| Mark Twain | It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand |
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| Bumper sticker | Stop lying to children - Break the cycle of religion |
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| Thomas D. Pate | And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods. |
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| Lenny Bruce | If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses |
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| Robert G. Ingersoll | The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it |
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| Richard Dawkins | I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. |
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| Josh Charles | Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? |
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| Carl Sagan | Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. |
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| Richard Dawkins | Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. |
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| Taslima Nasrin | Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? |
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| Pope Leo X | It has served us well, this myth of Christ. |
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recently added quotes
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| Luke Thomas | Do you really think that there is a perfect, eternal life waiting for you in heaven? God screwed up and made faulty humans on Earth. Who's to say he didn't screw up even worse while making heaven? |
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| Luke Thomas | Do you really think that there is a perfect, eternal life waiting for you in heaven? God screwed up and made faulty humans on Earth. Who's to say he didn't screw up even worse while making heaven? |
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| Luke Thomas | Every hour that you spend in church or praying is one that you could have spent feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, preventing abuse, or saving wildlife. But god just needed those prayers, so that's where your time went. |
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| D. Fadden | For the kind of peace that passes understanding...atheism. As experienced by a former Christian of 30+ years. |
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| Blake | God is the ultimate imaginary enemy of mankind. |
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| Jonathan Chow |
The earth is 4.7 billion years old, Christianity is around 4000 years old. scientist actually have something to say about those 4.7 billion years, religion does not. Infact most of what religion claims to have happened wasn't even in recorded history.  |
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| Shara Hamshar |
If there is a God, he will understand why I quit believing in him. |
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| Alex |
Dr.Steven Hawkin's the famous (perhaps infamous)physicist & scientist has just very recently stated that god was NOT involved in the big bang & that the god had nothing to do with lighting the blue touch paper that got the universe started. I respect t... [more] |
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| Ere Thomas |
The first wise man created God, for fools. The second wise man created religion, to keep peoples fool. |
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