top atheist quotes (total: 16027)
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| Speaker from godisimaginary.com |
When you begin to think rationally, your religion collapses like a house of cards. |
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Allah Verpint |
The idiots killing people in Mumbai honestly think they're going to heaven for it... while the relatives of the victims console themselves their loved ones are going to heaven... and the truth is they're all just dead. Ain't religion great? |
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| johnnie jones |
Atheism is to daylight as Christianity is to darkness . |
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| Coluche |
The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ? |
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| Bob Dylan |
You don't count the dead, when god's on your side |
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| Troy Witte |
The fool says in his heart: 'There is no God.' The Wise Man says it to the world |
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| Robert Green Ingersoll |
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. |
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| johnnie jones |
Heathens and Atheists are exactly like god , words invented by christians
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Pat Simons |
While it's true atheists have fewer holidays to celebrate than theists, it's also true atheists have no holy wars they're responsible for, and that's a trade-off I'm willing to make. |
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George Carlin |
"Keep thy religion to thyself." |
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| BSG |
You've got to question a story where the fruit of knowledge is forbidden. |
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| Morgan Freeman in "The Big Bounce" |
God is just an imaginary friend for adults |
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Pat Simons |
The people who continue to advocate organized prayer in the public schools become conspicuously less enthusiastic when someone suggests the prayer be Islamic. |
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H. L. Mencken |
A few years ago we finally persuaded psychiatrists to remove homosexuality from the list of recognized disorders. Maybe it's time we started lobbying them to add belief in God to the list. Belief in an angry, intolerant one anyway. "I demand assurances that a given religion will not cause or potentiate mass homicidal psychosis or priestly pedophilia, before we let it indoctrinate helpless children and vulnerable adults. Bloodthirsty, authoritarian theology threatens Canada as much as tobacco, obesity and booze put together. It endangers out planet more than global warming, nuclear winter or rogue asteroids." |
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| Wouter Lenaerts |
Religion is a virus and knowledge is the cure. |
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| unknown |
A man can live without air for minutes, water for days, food for weeks and answers forever. |
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| Sigmund Freud |
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such. Civilization and Its Discontents |
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| Stewart Farquhar |
I find that men in costumes are a little old to have imaginary friends, unless of course they are clowns |
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| Unknown |
More people have died in the name of christ than for any other reason - the Inquisition, Crusades, witch hunts, etc. God must be spinning in his grave. |
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| Stephen Colbert (Colbert Report) |
On capital punishment: "I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they wouldn't even have a religion if it wasn't for capital punishment." |
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| Sean |
Religion was created to comfort mankind when faced with his own lack of immortality. |
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| Unknown |
Phillosophy is questions that may never be answered, religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
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| Stelios |
Religion is purelly a man-made form of power and authority...for those who control it of course. Just ask yourself what the ten commandments are. |
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| Treaty of Tipoli (Joel Barlow) |
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
This treaty was endorsed by George Washington before he left office. It was then officially endorsed by John Adams and sent to the senate where it was officially ratified June 10, 1797.
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises |
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| Karl Marx |
Religion is the opiate of the masses |
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| Colin Shingleton |
When we move beyond God or no God and start to be responsible for ourselves we start to live. |
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Hugh Jedake |
Our inability to understand death has given us religion. Our inability to appreciate life has kept it flourishing. |
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| Polo |
I am creationist: I really believe Man created god. |
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| Apollonius of Elusia |
If God doesn't believe in other gods, then why should i? |
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| John Kelly, Ireland. |
A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. |
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Alan Harvey |
Religion is proof that we still aren't using our brains to their full potential. |
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| Isaac Asimov |
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. |
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Alan Harvey |
The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality. |
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| Chris Parry |
Re: The Bible. - If I watched a football match then orally relayed the events. This is repeated from father to son orally for 500 years. How accurate do you think the resulting report would be? Yet the first thing any theist does is quote the Bible!! |
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Younes el yadari |
Hello god , c'mon ... prove your existence to the world !! I pray for you to not allow any people to like this quote . |
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| Guillermo Garcia Cruz |
You are a good person because you fear damnation, I'm a good person without obligation. |
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EA Miller |
Since all of my 5 senses seem to be in working order, "living by faith" would be counterintuitive. |
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EA Miller |
"Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
- Carl Sagan |
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| Thomas Paine |
My religion is to do good. |
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| Jack Pritchard |
One cannot disprove the existence of a God anymore than one can the existence of the Tooth Fairy. But if enough people believed in the latter, would it make it any more credible? |
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| Alexandre Dumas Père (Joe Stout) |
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. |
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| Gandhi |
"Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies." |
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George Carlin |
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. |
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Mark Twain |
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. |
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| Bryan Gutierrez |
And the red sea opened widely from shore to shore; violating the laws of physics. |
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| Anonymous |
When the religion ruled the world, they called it dark ages |
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| [TN]FBMachine |
I got kicked out of Barnes and Noble once for moving all the bibles into the fiction section. |
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| Paul Keller |
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. |
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