Atheist Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

  Dave Barry

  Humanity, Religion, Atheism

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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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, Father

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

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• The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

  George Herbert

  Atheism, Devil, Literature

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.186

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• Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

  Steve Crocker

  Religious, Clever, Atheism

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• This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligence, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2336, Library of Alexandria

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  Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Silence, Stupidity, Mammals

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Life, God, Education

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Atheism, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Atheism, Existential

  "The Words". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964.

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• An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

  Simone Weil

  Love, Atheism, May

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• 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

  Religious, Humility, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Fear, Believe

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4

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• I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

  Gary Kemp

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

  Johannes Kepler

  Miracle, Explanation

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• Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Atheism, Decay

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Philosophical, Men

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Religion, Progress

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.

  Steven Pinker

  Knowing, Views, People

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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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• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teacher, Children, Home

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  Pat Robertson

  Independence, Atheism, Cabinets

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• I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Cheating, Book

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• If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Buried, Jerry

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