Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is fo….

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth..

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything..

The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade ….

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches..

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it..

Regularity in Nature is not proof of the control of Nature by a Divine intelligence; it is rather the reverse. If something- call it matter, or ether….

Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands ….

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction bet….

I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the u….

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense..

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history..

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world..

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination ….

Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a ….

The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks a….

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death c….

The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians h….

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more considera….

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one..

Worship God. It’s easier than thinking..