atheist quotes
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top quotes (total: 2433)
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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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| 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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| Richard Jeni | You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend |
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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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| 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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| 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 | Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
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| unknown | Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Delos B. McKown | The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike |
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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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| Napoleon Bonaparte | Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet |
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| Aldous Huxley | "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." |
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| Unknown | Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
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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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| Carl Sagan | Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence |
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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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| Voltaire | Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
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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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| 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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| Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney | Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. |
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| Bumper sticker | You keep believing, I'll keep evolving |
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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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| Robert G. Ingersoll | As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers |
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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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| Giulian Buzila | History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Gustaf Lindborg | The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail |
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| Russian Proverb | Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. |
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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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| unknown | People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs |
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recently added quotes
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| Prof Uri Nassol | "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't true, but even so it is a good argument AGAINST religion. It shows how religion is only useful to sheild us from the reality of our situation... whether in a foxhole, lying in one's deathbed or standing by a lo... [more] |
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| Bugsy | My best friend has been "born again". She used to approach every subject with an open mind... now she approaches every subject with an open mouth. Shame, I used to think she was intelligent. |
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| Esiah Zakite | At least people hundreds of years ago believed in gods because they were ignorant... the only excuse for belief today has to be intellectual laziness or cowardice. |
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| Larry Rhodes | If you insist that everyone has faith in something, then I'll admit that my faith lies in the human ability to deal with the real world using human reason and compassion. I have faith that we are not born as flawed sinners; we are born whole, with brai... [more] |
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| David Smalley | You will not have an opportunity to make a difference after death; so be someone's guardian angel now. |
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| Ricky Gervais |
So, in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth, then he said, let there be light... So he made the the heavens and the Earth IN THE DARK! |
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| Richard Dawkins |
It is futile to use a creator to explain how we came to be, when it raises a bigger question, who created the creator? |
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| Richard Dawkins |
It is ridiculous to say you believe in something just because we cannot prove that it doesn't exist. For example if i was to say there was a teapot that was orbiting around the Sun, but it was to small to see with our telescopes, it would be stupid to ... [more] |
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
Morality has NOTHING to do with God or Religion. I get furious when the church professes to be the sole authority on ALL moral matters (issues). Atheists are some of the most moral people you could ever wish to meet & church people some of the most hyp... [more] |
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
Atheists have inherited a sense of morality, what is right & wrong, it comes hardwired from our evolutionary past i.e. our ancient ancestors. A moral sense is not dependent on religion or from God or from the bible. |
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