This collection holds 1,859 atheist quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Robert Green Ingersoll, Frank Lloyd Wright and George Orwell.

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With soap, baptism is a good thing. - Robert Green Ingersoll

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. - George Orwell

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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

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

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. - Thomas Jefferson

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without ... - Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first ... - Dennis Miller

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the ... - Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it ... - Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ... - Richard Lederer

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of ... - Eric Hoffer

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

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I ... - Charles Darwin

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the ... - Mark Twain

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, ... - Baron D'holbach

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the ... - George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a ... - Theodore Dreiser

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church ... - Catherine Fahringer

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. ... - Mads Mikkelsen

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the ... - Albert Einstein

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at ... - Robert A. Heinlein

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that ... - Isaac Asimov

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.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the ... - Bill Hicks

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!

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative ... - Salman Rushdie

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Religion is all bunk.

You are all stardust.

I think; therefore I am.

I am a daylight atheist.

The atheist has no hope.

Then why did you tell me?

Thank God I'm an atheist.

One hates what one fears.

I'm a born - again atheist.

God is the absolute truth...

I don't believe in atheists.

No one ever dies an atheist.

All thinking men are atheists.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Everyday is an atheist holiday.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

No atheist says there is no god!

Without God, life is everything.

Man created God in his own image.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

There are no atheist in foxholes.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

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