Quotes on Positive Atheism

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.