Atheism Quotes - Page 2

• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Reality, Political

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• Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Atheist, If There Is A God

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Names, People

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Atheist, Believe, People

  "Kate Talks Straight" by Myrna Blyth, Ladies' Home Journal (p. 215), October 1, 1991.

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• All thinking men are atheists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Death, Atheist

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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• In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.

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• I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Jobs, Mistake

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Motivational, Death, Spiritual

  "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.

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• The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

  Denis Diderot

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

  "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.

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• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Atheist, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Atheist, Hypocrite

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• I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Meaningful, Atheist, Responsibility

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• 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

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, God, Spiritual

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.554, Psychology Press

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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• I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

  Albert Camus

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Bible, Atheist, Book

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheist, Pills, Chewing

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• The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Data, Religion

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.99, e-artnow

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• Thank God I'm an atheist.

  Luis Bunuel

  Atheist, Thank God

  "Mon Dernier soupir" ("My Last Sigh"), 1983.

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Two, Guy

  "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.

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• The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

  Steven Weinberg

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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