Atheism Quotes - Page 5

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

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Religion, Tragedy

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• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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• The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.

  Nick Yee

  God, Weed, Atheist

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• We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Selfish

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• Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Atheist, Philosophy, Stupid

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

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• ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Debauchery

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religion, Libertarian, Weapons

  Thomas Jefferson (1939). “Democracy”

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• I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Atheist

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• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Drama, Struggle

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

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• People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  People, Religion, Church

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• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Reality, Religion

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• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Children, Pain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

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• I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, Believe, School

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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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• God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Knives

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  Emile Zola

  Atheist, Fall, Civilization

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• Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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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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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Agnostic, Pagan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Atheist, Free Spirit, Owing

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.36, SUNY Press

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• 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

  Religious, Atheist, Heart

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.131, CUP Archive

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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Atheist, Catholic, Religion

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