Atheism Quotes - Page 8

• Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Motivational, Religion, Matter

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• Atheism is easy in fair weather.

  Ronald Dunn

  Weather, Easy, Fairs

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• The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Atheist, Religion, Foxholes

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Mother, Son, Men

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Promise, Tears, Incense

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part I, Book VI, Chapter V. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 202, 1802.

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• Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

  Robert Collyer

  Institutions

  "Yesterday in the Pulpit". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1882.

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• When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Should, Ifs

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.35

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• I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Knowing, Mind, Passionate

  "Belief" Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. October 22, 2009.

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

  Jacques Maritain

  Religious, Commitment, Gears

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

  George Carlin

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Edgy comic George Carlin dies at 71" by Dean Goodman, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2008.

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• If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

  George Carlin

  Best God, Diseased, Can Do

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

  Auguste Comte

  Computer, Destroyed, Replaced

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• You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

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• Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fear, Hate, Winning

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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• If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Atheist, Philosophy

  Love and Death (1975 film)

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• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Reform, Slavery

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1182, Library of Alexandria

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• All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Children, Ideas

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Chap. 30. Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Religion, Bother

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• Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

  Austin O'Malley

  Atheist, Philosophy, Mind

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• A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Atheist, Godly

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• When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Atheist, Men

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