Quotes on Greatest Atheist

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

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

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

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

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