Best Atheism Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

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

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands – a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

I’m a born – again atheist.

There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.