Atheist Quotes - Page 4

• An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Heaven, Religion

  Murray v. Curlett, Petition for Relief, 1959.

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Names, People, Insanity

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• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

  John C. Wright

  Land, Dancing, Joy

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Fear, Marijuana

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• But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.

  Michael Newdow

  America, Atheism, Ifs

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• Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

  David Viaene

  Religious, People, Atheism

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• 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?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  If There Is A God, Fake, Religion

  "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Teaching, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1279, Library of Alexandria

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• I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Thinking, Envy

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.55, Basic Books

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• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Imagination, Religion

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religion, Tragedy, Atheism

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• In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.

  Jethro Tull

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Thinking, Curiosity

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Learning, Knowledge

  "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheism, Church

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• It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Religious, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

  Penn Jillette

  Sex, Believe, People

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I'm a born - again atheist.

  Gore Vidal

  Religion, Atheism, Born Again

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

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• All religions have been made by men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Teacher, Intelligent

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• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  John Buchan

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Quoted in Harry E. Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943)

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• The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

  Plutarch

  Believe, Men, Wish

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• The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Religion, Atheism

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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