Atheism Quotes

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

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Sixty

• There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

  

  William Godwin
  • Justice
  • Humans
  • Given

• Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Religion
  • Motivational
  • Atheism

• The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Lying
  • Slavery
  • Murder

• Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Religion
  • Christ
  • Clue

• 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

• 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

• Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Atheist
  • Positive Atheism

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

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Atheism
  • Senseless
  • Odious

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

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
  • Reality
  • Religion

• 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

• Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Natural
  • Communism
  • Inseparable

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe
  • Religion

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Disease
  • Atheism

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

  

  William Howard Taft
  • World
  • Feels
  • Unitarian

• If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Religion
  • Dignity
  • Shining

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