Quotes on Atheist

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah._x000D_ _x000D_ None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.