Atheist Quotes - Page 8

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

  Baron d'Holbach

  Children, Ideas, Religion

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

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Men, Intelligence

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  Joseph McCabe

  Play, Training, Progress

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• Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Men, Sky

  "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Motivational, Courage, Kindness

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

  Penn Jillette

  Religion, Atheism, Facts

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Christian, Reality, Religion

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• Fear is the mother of all gods.

  Lucretius

  Mother, Religion, Atheism

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• To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

  Woody Allen

  Loyalty, Religion, Atheism

  "Fictional character: Sandy Bates". "Stardust Memories", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Philosophy, Religion

  "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

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• We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, If There Is A God, Religion

  "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.

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• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Our Theatres In The Nineties". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1932.

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• I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist, and what the heck, if life sucks what do you have to live for? If you're an atheist, it's just about living, you know? So at the time, I didn't want to wake up anymore and then seriously, God chased me down and proved that he was real and that he loved me.

  Lacey Mosley

  Christian, Suicide, Real

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• Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "We the Living". Book by Ayn Rand, 1936.

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• Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

  Mark Twain

  Character, Angel, Light

  Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.319, University of Georgia Press

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• I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Spiritual, Dog

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• You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance, Dissonance

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Believe, If There Is A God

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Bending Down, Differences, Religion

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Math, Night

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• I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

  Dan Barker

  Fall, Religion, Atheism

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• The atheist has no hope.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Atheism, No Hope

  James Freeman Clarke (1870). “Steps of Belief: Or, Rational Christianity Maintained Against Atheism, Free Religion, and Romanism”, p.63

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• I am a daylight atheist.

  Brendan Behan

  Atheism, Daylight

  Quoted in Daniel Farson Sacred Monsters,'Rousting in Dublin' (1988).

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• The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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