You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
— Blaise Pascal
Tempting Daily Atheist quotations
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown.
That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.