Atheist Quotes - Page 6

• Thank God I'm an atheist.

  Luis Bunuel

  Thank God, Atheism

  "Mon Dernier soupir" ("My Last Sigh"), 1983.

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• Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

  Scott Adams

  Christian, Religious, Terror Attacks

  "The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays". November 19, 2006.

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• I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Men, Religion

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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, People, Religion

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• If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Money

  New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973

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• I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Literature, Great Divorce

  "Unseen CS Lewis letter defines his notion of joy" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheism, Balls, Agnostic

  "The Colbert Report". www.imdb.com. 2005 - 2015.

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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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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Prayer, War

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

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• The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Death, Fear, Dying

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

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• I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  Ilka Chase

  Religious, Men, Cynical

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Believe, Humor

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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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

  Men, Soul, Religion

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.859, Booklassic

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• The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

  Ricky Gervais

  God, Religion, Atheism

  "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.14, St. Martin's Press

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• I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

  Mark Fuhrman

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

  Patricia Churchland

  Meaningful, Caring, Anchors

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• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  Warren Mitchell

  Hate, Thinking, Catholic

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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

  Isaac Asimov

  Spiritual, Fear, Believe

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

  Hu Shih

  Leader, Atheism, Today

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Wall

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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