Daily Atheist Quotes

• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

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

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• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Religious, Atheist

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Religious, Atheist

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Atheist, If There Is A God

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

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• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, God, Death

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1991). “Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism”, Amer Atheist Press

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Respect, Religious

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Motivational, Death, Faith

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Atheist, Infidelity

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• A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Atheist, Children

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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

  John Buchan

  Funny, Atheist, Humorous

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

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

  James K. Morrow

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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

  Woody Allen

  Loyalty, Atheist, Religion

  "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, Atheist, Philosophy

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

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Atheist, People

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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, Atheist, If There Is A God

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

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• Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

  Denis Diderot

  Atheist, Kings, Men

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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