All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who h….

The god of the world's leading religion..

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live..

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism..

Religion fosters servility and solipsism..

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity..

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence ….

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained..

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise..

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life ….

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he m….

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate int….

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time..

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them..

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything..

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods..

All religion is slavery..

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "….

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world..

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know w….

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary..