Atheist Quotes

• You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fall

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• 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

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Past

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• Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

  Andy Rooney

  Belief, Born, Infant

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• Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Heaven, Moral

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

  Denis Diderot

  Spiritual, Science, Religion

  "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spiritual, Firefly, Science

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• A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Children, Scary

  Twitter post from May 2, 2013

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• Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

  David Viaene

  Religious, People, Atheism

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Heart, Angel

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religion, Atheism, Agnostic

  Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale "The Protoplasmic Theory of Life" (p. 279), 1874.

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

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Suffering, Atheism

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

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• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, God, Death

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Religion, Atheism

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Real, Believe

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Nature, Believe

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spiritual, Religious, Science

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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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, Humorous

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

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

  Jesse Ventura

  Numbers, People, Religion

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheism, Might, Way

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Hypocrite, Past

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• It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Religious, Men, Atheism

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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