Browsing Topic 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.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

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.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

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

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.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

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.

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.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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

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

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

I’m a born – again atheist.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Without the gods, how would I sing?’ I asked. With your own voice,’ he said.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

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.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

… the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

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

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

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