top atheist quotes (total: 16015)
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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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Edward Gibbon |
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." [adapted] |
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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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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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| unknown |
Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
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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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Blaise Pascal |
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions |
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| Unknown |
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
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Sam Harris |
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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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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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 of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you... and HE NEEDS MONEY! |
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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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Anguished English -- student blooper |
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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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 |
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
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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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| 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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Doug McLeod |
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence |
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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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George Weinberg |
Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
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| Unknown |
"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you." |
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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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Carl Sagan |
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence |
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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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| 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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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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Voltaire |
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
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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 vanished, war eliminated |
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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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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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Giulian Buzila |
History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. |
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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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Gustaf Lindborg |
The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail |
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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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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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Robert G. Ingersoll |
As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers |
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| Unknown |
Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
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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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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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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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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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| Russian Proverb |
Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. |
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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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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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ed m |
Atheism is playing devil’s advocate to the B.S. of religion. |
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ed m |
We’re supposed to work until we’re at least 65.
The Lord said screw that after a week. |
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Pat Simons |
Nothing divides people more effectively and unnecessarily than religion. Take religion out of the equation and a great many of the world's problems would fade away. |
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EA Miller |
Anyone who claims that an invisible god told them to do something is either a liar, a lunatic, or a combination of both. |
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EA Miller |
Any race of beings that has achieved a life-enhancing level of technology and yet continues to cling to barbaric religious beliefs is most certainly on a path to extinction. Humanity’s days are numbered. |
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ed m |
Those that question nothing will believe anything |
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Idel Dreimer |
God is function without form -- a conceptual entity often central to tribal identity, a mythic glue for social cohesion, a psychological source of hope and comfort, and a powerful talisman protected by assumed infallibility and supportive social taboos. Yet he is, after all, puppet rather than creator -- and -- shaped by his self-appointed messengers -- is not exempt from the corruptive influence of power. Too human, with power of divine pretence, he becomes his satanic counterpart. (Observation #2369)
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Jerry Dees Jr |
With theists, divine will is often cited until it reflects poorly on God, at which point human free will is invoked. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
The Bible is comparable to authoring a text on lake trout and claiming its relevance to all fish worldwide. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
The notion of free will granted by an all-knowing God is one of the most significant contentions among Christians. However, it also serves as the most substantial evidence against the existence of a god. |
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