Atheist Quotes

This collection of atheist quotations is the biggest page I have on my website to date. There are so many fantastic atheist quotes out there I kept on adding more. Because there are so many of them instead of just one quote of the page I have five quotes of the page. I dedicate this page to my beautiful atheist partner this one is for you baby.

• ATHEIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE 1
  Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
  Douglas Adams


• ATHEIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE 2
  Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
  George Carlin


• ATHEIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE 3
  For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
  Carl Sagan


• ATHEIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE 4
  Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
  Bertrand Russell


• ATHEIST QUOTE OF THE PAGE 5
  If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
  Frank Zappa


• The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.
  Robert G. Ingersoll


• I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
  Carl Sagan


• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
  Isaac Asimov


• Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
  Friedrich Nietzsche


• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
  Arthur Schopenhauer


• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
  Gene Roddenberry


• The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton


• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
  Clarence Darrow


• To sum up:1. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride.
  Henry Mencken


• Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
  Robert G. Ingersoll


• I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
  Katharine Hepburn


• 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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
  Bernard Shaw


• ATHEISM = Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.
  Brenda Cornish


• The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
  Susan B Anthony


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


• Scientific research confirms that humans are a link in the evolutionary life chain. There is no credible evidence for the existence of an immortal supernatural element. Our only life is here and now. Make it worthy of a moral person.
  Keith S Cornish


• 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. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.
  Bertrand Russell


• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
  Ilka Chase


• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
  Author Unknown


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


• I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
  Christopher Marlowe


• It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
  Gloria Steinem


• If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
  Baron D’Holbach


• Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
  Taslima Nasrin


• Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
  Richard Dawkins


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


• The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. This is the way opinions are held in science, as opposed to the way in which they are held in theology.
  Bertrand Russell


• As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored.
  Rick Reynolds


• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish (Muslim) Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.
  Tom Paine


• 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.
  Gene Roddenberry


• During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry.
  Mark Twain


• Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
  Susan Ertz


• Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
  Arthur C. Clarke


• You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.
  Richard A. Weatherwax


• A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it.
  Anon.


• That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
  Bertrand Russell


• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
  Albert Einstein


• On the first day, man created God.
  Author Unknown


• My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
  Bertrand Russell,


• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
  H L Mencken


• 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


• Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
  Bertrand Russell


• To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition.
  Woody Allen


• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
  Steven Weinberg


• The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight -- that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether
  Daniel Dennett


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


• One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
  Bertrand Russell


• I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
  Stephen Roberts


• The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
  Jiddu Krishnamurti


• Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
  Benjamin Franklin


• The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
  Mark Twain


• Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
  Richard Dawkins


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


• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
  Karl Marx


• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
  Richard Dawkins


• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
  George W. Foote


• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
  Author Unknown


• What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of “humility.” This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
  Albert Einstein


• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
  Mark Twain


• God should be executed for crimes against humanity.
  Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez


• 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


• Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.
  Thomas Jefferson


• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
  Sigmund Freud


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


• The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.
  Huang Po

Thanks for passing by my atheist quotes page. I love these atheist quotes I am all about reason, rationality, logic and most importantly evidence based conclusions. These quotes highlight the human infliction of religion perfectly. I hope one day probably not in my lifetime that evidence based thinking takes over fairy-tales and faith based thinking. Maybe one day John Lennon I will keep on imagining in the mean time.




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