Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. — George Santayana
Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind. — Gad Saad
Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than 'I don’t like rollerblading' is a workout strategy. — Tim Urban
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. — George Carlin
I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable. — Anthony Jeselnik
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. — Andy Rooney
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. — Dan Fouts
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. — Ricky Gervais
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men. — Albert Camus
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry — Peter Kreeft
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. — Francis Thompson
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. — Julia Kristeva
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. — Albert Camus
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. — Baron d'Holbach
Top 10 Positive Atheism Quotes
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. — Bartolome de las Casas
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. — Lucretia Mott
The Pope? How many divisions has he got? — Joseph Stalin
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse. — Roger Williams
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. — Aristophanes
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire. — Gustave Le Bon
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. — Thomas Hobbes
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. — Mark Twain
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Positive Atheist Quotes
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change. — Marquis De Sade
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. — Mikhail Bakunin
The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews. — Jerry Falwell
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. — Barbara Smoker
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon. — Taslima Nasrin
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted. — A.J. Ayer
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..." — Carl Sagan
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. — Ruth Hurmence Green
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative. — Jaroslav Pelikan
Christian Atheist Quotes
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality. — Soren Kierkegaard
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. — Francis Collins
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. — Albert Einstein
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. — Voltaire
Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness — David Platt
I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself." — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith. — Brian Littrell
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that. — Frank Zappa
I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet. — Charles Bradlaugh
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world. — Benjamin Carson
When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive. — Dave Ramsey
We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men. — Greg L. Bahnsen
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations. — Margaret E. Knight
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton
Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds. — Baruch Spinoza
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved. — Bartolome de las Casas
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things. — Giordano Bruno
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it. — Gustave Le Bon
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not. — Protagoras
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are? — Frank Zappa
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. — Frank Zappa
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement. — Federico Fellini
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears. — Gustave Le Bon
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax — Thomas Paine
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support. — Thomas Jefferson
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie. — Henrik Ibsen
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). — Stephen Jay Gould
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed. — Voltaire
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk; but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury. — Karl Popper
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live? — Nel Noddings
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God. — Joseph Stalin
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. — George Gaylord Simpson
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer. — Lucy Stone
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. — Philip Sidney
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. — Thomas Hobbes
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