Atheism Quotes

• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Needs
  • Atheism

• If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • God
  • True
  • Nature

• God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Positive
  • Causes
  • Intellectual

• Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Different
  • Christianity

• I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Magic

• I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • World
  • Feels
  • Unitarian

• Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Atheist
  • Positive Atheism

• People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.

  

  Dan Barker
  • People
  • Different
  • Belief

• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Time
  • Space
  • Rest

• Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Atheism
  • Senseless
  • Odious

• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Why
  • Religion

• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Atheism
  • Polite
  • Pantheism

• To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Religious

• Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Men
  • Answers

• The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Church
  • Mean
  • Influence

• Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Sixty

• Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Humans
  • Mankind
  • Affair

• A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Flower

• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
  • Reality
  • Religion

• I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Existence

• You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Crime
  • Blasphemy
  • Accusing

• The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Ideas

• The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

  

  H. J Eckenrode
  • Political
  • Control
  • Church

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