Atheism Quotes

• Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

• Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

• George Orwell / Novelist

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

• Voltaire / Writer

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

• George Bernard Shaw / Playwright

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

• Mark Twain / Author

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

• Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington / Novelist

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

• Havelock Ellis / Physician

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

• Thomas Jefferson / 3rd U.S. President

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

• Ann Coulter / Commentator

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

• Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

• James Joyce / Novelist

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

• Susan B. Anthony / Women's Rights Activist

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

• Thomas Paine / Author

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

• Eric Hoffer / Philosopher

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

• C. S. Lewis / Novelist

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.

• Denis Diderot / Philosopher

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

• Pearl S. Buck / Writer

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

• Isaac Asimov / Author

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

• Bill Hicks / Comedian

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

• Mikhail Bakunin

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

• Arthur C. Clarke / Film Writer

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

• Thomas A. Edison / Inventor

Religion is all bunk.

• Amiri Baraka / Writer

God is man idealized.

• Jack Kevorkian / Pathologist

Dying is not a crime.

• Michel De Montaigne / Writer

Death pays all debts.

• H. L. Mencken / Journalist

Why do men go to zoos?

• George W. Bush / 43rd U.S. President

God speaks through me.

• Ted Turner / Businessman

Christians are losers.

• Sandra Bernhard / Comedian

Gayness is a non-issue.

• Stanislaw Jerzy Lec / Poet

All Gods were immortal.

• Brendan Behan / Poet

I am a daylight atheist.

• Frank Zappa / Musician

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

• James Freeman Clarke / Author

The atheist has no hope.

• William H. Pryor, Jr.

No man is above the law.

• Annie Dillard / Author

Then why did you tell me?

• Luis Bunuel / Filmmaker

Thank God I'm an atheist.

• Marilyn Manson / Musician

God is just a statistics.

• Maynard James Keenan / Singer

Sure, I love fairy tales.

• Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner / Author

Heresy makes for progress.

• Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer

Atheism is too theological.

• Gore Vidal / Writer

I'm a born - again atheist.

• Luther Burbank / Botanist

Science is the only savior.

• George Santayana / Philosopher

Fear first created the gods.

• James M. Kouzes / Author

Do what you say you will do.

• Plato / Philosopher

No one ever dies an atheist.

• Robert Browning / Poet

Who knows most, doubts most.

• Fred Hoyle / Astronomer

The universe is a put-up job.

• Karl Marx / Philosopher

Misery motivates, not utopia.