Atheist Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Believe, People, Religion

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

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• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Years, Long

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Heart, Angel

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

  Andy Rooney

  Belief, Born, Infant

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• Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

  Jack Pritchard

  Religious, Atheism, Viruses

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  Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Children, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Parent, Religion, Atheism

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• Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

  Hippocrates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Christian, Pain

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2

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• What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

  Steve Buscemi

  Religious, Eye, Want Something

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• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  "God" (song) (1970)

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Religion, Intelligence

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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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, Responsibility, Views

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

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• A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

  Matt Dillahunty

  God, Reality, Atheism

  YouTube Channel "AtheisticLiberator"/"Matt Dillahunty: "I'm a skeptic" - The Atheist Experience #692", www.youtube.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Names, People, Evil

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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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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Death, Religious, Men

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

  George Santayana

  Men, Insightful, Atheism

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

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• Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

  C. S. Lewis

  Views, Christian Inspirational, Atheism

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Believe, Moving, Hands

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• 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.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Evil People

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, People, Religion

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

  Sam Harris

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Degrees, False Prophets, Idiocy

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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