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

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Belief, Ethical

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

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Study, I Believe

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• The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

  Plato

  Men, Political, Good Man

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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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• 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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• There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Foxholes, Chaplains, Fronts

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Thinking, People

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• The only atheism is the denial of truth.

  Arthur Lynch

  Denial

  Arthur Lynch (1929). “The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era”

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• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Atheist, Believe, Cynical

  Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)

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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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• Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to "hasten the inevitable," not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion.

  Daniel Dennett

  Morning, Fun, Heart

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.294, Penguin UK

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Philosophical

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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