Quotes on Atheism

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.