top atheist quotes (total: 16009)
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Terry Pratchett |
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. |
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| Frater Ravus |
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. |
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| Edith Sitwell |
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. |
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Woody Allen |
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse |
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| Unknown |
Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10 |
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Mark Twain |
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also |
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| Donald Morgan |
Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here. |
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Richard Dawkins |
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. |
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| School Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #1 |
Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. |
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| Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) |
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. |
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Douglas Adams |
I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. |
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| Bob Snuka |
I refuse to believe in a god that would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
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| Robert M. Pirsig |
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. |
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Christopher Hitchens |
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof |
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| Unknown |
Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god? |
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Carl Sagan |
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature |
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| One of Murphy's laws |
A man without religon is like a fish without a bicycle |
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Albert Einstein |
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. |
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| Susan B. Anthony |
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. |
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| God |
*silence* |
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Penn Jillette |
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? |
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Richard Dawkins |
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. |
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| James Morrow |
"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes |
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George Carlin |
Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick. |
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Bertrand Russell |
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true. |
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| Dan Fouts |
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. |
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| Chapman Cohen |
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense |
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Mark Twain |
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand |
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| Ed Krebs |
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. |
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| Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) |
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself |
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| Gypsy Rose Lee |
Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere |
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Richard Dawkins |
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. |
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| Jon Stewart (Daily Show) |
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. |
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Voltaire |
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
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Mark Twain |
I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. |
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Richard Dawkins |
Religion is unusual among divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might had to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic. |
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Richard Feynman |
But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me |
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| Lenny Bruce |
If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses |
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| David Viaene |
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people |
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| Robert M. Price |
Who needs Satan when you have a God like this? |
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Salvador Dali |
Thank god I'm an atheist... |
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| Frank Zappa |
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. |
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| David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) |
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it |
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| Rev. Ron |
Without God, life is everything. |
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Carl Sagan |
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. |
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| sir David stevens |
Its 90 degrees in the shade in jerusalem.. where did noah get two penguins and two polar bears from? |
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| Thomas Paine |
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
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Stache |
The logo for Christianity is a t. The T is a cross and yet SO MANY people got crustified. Jesus was probably a real person, but a lunatic. He told everyone he was the son of god, so does that mean that if I say I'm the son of a mystical beast from a fairly tale, you'd believe me? Over 3 BILLION people would believe me?
(The atheist logo is an atomic sign because atheists are booming!) |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
If suicide bombers and the jet hijackers of 9/11 had understood that this life was the only one, and no eternal reward awaited them, numerous lives may have been spared. These tragic events highlight how religious beliefs can foster harmful actions. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
What rationale underlies the notion that your God would penalize all humanity for the naive transgressions of the first two humans, who were deceived by a powerful entity of His own creation? Similarly, why would all snakes be punished due to a single serpent with limited intelligence being possessed by that same powerful creation of His? |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
Jesus was likely a troubled young man brainwashed by his mother, who was too afraid to admit that she had lain with a man outside of marriage, just another tragedy of religion. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
The Old Testament to the New Testament is just an evolution to fit a more modern understanding, showing that the Old Testament was no longer acceptable by logical righteousness standards, proving the Bible is merely a man-made book. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
I find it interesting when theists claim the Bible's validity is confirmed by archeologists' use of the text to discover actual places, ignoring the widespread literary practice of incorporating real locations into fictional tales. |
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EA Miller |
Using "gods" as an explanation for things you don't understand is just a lazy, uneducated, cop-out. |
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EA Miller |
Life without religion truly frees the mind for much more noble pursuits, like feeding and housing the poor regardless of their belief system. In other words, help other human beings simply because they need help without taking advantage of their vulnerability. |
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EA Miller |
Once upon a time, man invented god... and then everything went to hell. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
What kind of evil vanity drives your god to permit tragedy simply to receive prayers? |
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