Atheism Quotes - Page 6

• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Atheist, Men, Trying

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• Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

  Andy Rooney

  Christian, Atheist, Religion

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• You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Smart, Brave

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Belief, Ethical

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• I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

  Charles Darwin

  Family, Brother, Atheist

  Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley (1983). “Autobiographies”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Fake

  "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Science And Religion, Science Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Atheist, Men, Teach A Man To Fish

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• Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

  Bill Hicks

  Atheist, Revolutionary Ideas, Suffering

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Passion, Thinking

  "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". Book by Christopher Hitchens, p. 11, 1995.

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• Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Religion, Might

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Religion, Demand

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Important, Telescopes

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.400

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• When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Support, Religion, Church

  Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations”, p.69

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• No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophical, Heaven, Religion

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Atheist, Men, Soul

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.859, Booklassic

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• The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

  Garrett Hardin

  Dog, Atheist, Blessing

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• The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Study, I Believe

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  The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Creator God, Study

  The Literary Digest, October 18, 1902.

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• First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, Sake

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 17

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• The atheist has no hope.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Atheist, No Hope

  James Freeman Clarke (1870). “Steps of Belief: Or, Rational Christianity Maintained Against Atheism, Free Religion, and Romanism”, p.63

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• Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nonsense, Ends, Dangerous

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.237, Random House

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