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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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

  Aristotle

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Atheism

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• All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.

  Susan Blackmore

  Self, Afterlife, Long

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• Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Temptation, Atheism

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• Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Heart, Car

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• The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

  Lucretius

  Medicine, Sick, Mind

  On the Nature of Things III. 510

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• All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Atheism, Mythology

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

  David Feherty

  Believe, People, Atheism

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• I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

  George Holyoake

  Soccer, Believe, Atheism

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior 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

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

  Joseph Addison

  Faith, Atheist, Religion

  The Spectator, No. 185, October 2, 1711.

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• Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Real, Atheism, Murder

  "Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.csmonitor.com. November 21, 2006.

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• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

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• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

  John Updike

  Atheist, Intellectual, Atheism

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.138, Random House

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• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

  George Santayana

  Atheist, Men, Insightful

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

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• The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Greed, Atheism

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• The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Light, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.732, Del Rey

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• A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

  Jane Addams

  Wise, Believe, Men

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• The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

  Jane Addams

  Religious, Order, Atheism

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• In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Believe, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Atheism, Belief

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• You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

  Margaret Atwood

  Atheism, Absence, Reverse

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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