Atheist Quotes - Page 5

• I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Fighting, Waiting

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2012

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• A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

  Jose Bergamin

  Motivational, Humility, Political

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• Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Fear, Epic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Garbage, Deserve

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• I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Thinking, Flying

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• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Struggle, Animal

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

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• An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

  Francis Thompson

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.

  Richard Dawkins

  Views, Design, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

  Brad Pitt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Loss

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• The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

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• All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Atheism, Superstitions

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• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

  George Carlin

  Stupid People, Organization, Religion

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Ignorance, Science

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

  Dan Fouts

  Religious, Believe, Atheism

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• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

  George William Foote

  Spiritual, Religious, Science

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• Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Religion, Atrocities, Unjust

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2008). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religion, Atheism, Foxholes

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

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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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• A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cat, Dark, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  God, People, Insanity

  "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert Pirsig, 1991.

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• We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Science

  "President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

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  How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

  Mark Twain

  Religious, People, Religion

  "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2". Book by Mark Twain (p. 302), 2013.

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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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