Positive Atheism Quotes

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

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Atheism, Nihilism

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

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• It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

  H. L. Mencken

  Sad, God, Long Distance Relationship

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.189, Knopf

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• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Agnostic, Incredibles

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• The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Father, Confused

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• If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Tyrants, Soul

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• The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

  Voltaire

  Grease, Atheism, Charity

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• All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

  Daniel Webster

  Atheism, Creeds, Uncertain

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• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Garden, Atheism

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• Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

  Voltaire

  Important Events, Atheism, Church

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• What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

  Voltaire

  People, Atheism, Candide

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin

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• As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Powerful, Hypocrite

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• Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.

  Sam Harris

  Attitude, Evil, Atheism

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• Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Enemy, Anarchy

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• Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, People

  Liberty of Man, Woman and Child Sect. 3

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• I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

  Thomas A. Edison

  God, Believe, Doubt

  The Freethinker, Volume 90, 1970.

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• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

  Thomas Hood

  Race, Atheism, Taste

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.407

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• Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, People, Atheism

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• Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Men, Sky

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Religion"

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

  Emma Goldman

  Life And Death, Understanding, Tolerance

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.

  Robert Trivers

  Oddities, Atheism, Stones

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• Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

  Ouida

  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  Frances Wright

  Errors, Imagination, Atheism

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures”, p.65

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• You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

  Mark Twain

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.253, Univ of California Press

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• That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

  Rod Steiger

  Kings, Believe, Men

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