Atheist Quotes - Page 2

• 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, Beer

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Cyanide

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Why Not

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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

  Faith Religion, Atheism, Debauchery

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

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• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Motivational, God, People

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• If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheism, Nihilism, Would Be

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man created God in his own image.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Agnostic, Anti God

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Philosophy, Atheism, Inability

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

  Clark Adams

  Death, Religion, Dying

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spiritual, Firefly, Science

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• By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Simple, Common Sense

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  Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

  Jon Stewart

  Death, Hope, People

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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• For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Believe, Common Sense, Common

  "The Summing Up".

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Prayer, Book, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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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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• The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Animal, Men

  "The Lowest Animal" (1940)

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Believe, Science

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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• It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

  Stephen Hawking

  Motivational, Believe, Grateful

  YouTube Chanel "stepore"/ "Stephen Hawking There is no God. There is no Fate.", www.youtube.com. August 15, 2011.

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• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Faith, Spiritual, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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

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• If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Mistake, Insecure, Demand

  Edward A. Gross, Gene Roddenberry, Mark A. Altman (1994). “Great Birds of the Galaxy”, Image Pub of New York

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