Atheist Quotes

• 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

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Believe

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• We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

  Don Henley

  Spiritual, Science, Destiny

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• We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.

  Margherita Hack

  Believe, Heaven, Principles

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• The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hands, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

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• Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mind, Religion, Atheism

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2004.

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• If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Live Life, Men, Atheism

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• Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faith, Religious, Fear

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin

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• No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

  Tom Lehrer

  Thinking, Arrogant, Dangerous

  Responding to a question on whether he considered himself an atheist or an agnostic, in an interview at celebathiests.com, June 1996.

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• None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

  Ernest Renan

  Country, Believe, Miracle

  Ernest Renan (2015). “Christ in Art”, p.52, Parkstone International

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• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Hate

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

  Stendhal

  Fear, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

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• If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

  Mark Twain

  Thug, If There Is A God, Religion

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Hitchens vs Blair”, p.9, Random House

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  If There Is A God, Religion, Atheism

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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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• If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Funny, God, Jesus

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• Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, God, Death

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• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Science

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Secular Society, Faith Religion

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• There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Fear, Dark, Secular Society

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• It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  God, Fear, Atheism

  "Sir Arthur’s Quotations", www.clarkefoundation.org.

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, If There Is A God, Religion

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

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