Atheist Quotes:

The ancient author of the fictional creation story can be credited with the greatest brainwashing in history having only used 5 words. "In the beginning, God created..."
-Anonymous

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein

When you understand why you dismiss all other Gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
-Stephen Roberts

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
-Richard Dawkins

Surely you do not believe in the gods.
What's your argument?
Where's your proof?
-Aristophanes

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-Christopher Hitchens

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
-unknown

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
-Delos McKown

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
-George Carlin

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
-unknown

Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, controls people, and deludes people
-Carlespie McKinney

Gods are fragile things; They may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
-Chapman Cohen

By simple common sense, I do not believe in God.
-Charlie Chaplin

All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway

There are two classes of men: Intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
-Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
-Gene Roddenberry

Religion is just mind control.
-George Carlin

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
-Henry Mencken

Atheism is the voice of a few intelligent people.
-Voltaire

Suppose we've chosen the wrong God. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder.
-Homer Simpson

Prayer has no place in public school, just like facts have no place in organized religion.
-Superintendent Chalmers

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church.
-Unknown

Religions are all alike, founded upon fable and mythologies.
-Thomas Jefferson

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, or of a God.
-Thomas Edison

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance, and ferocity.
-Baron D'holbach

People who don't like their belifs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs.
-Unknown

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
-Unknown

Two hands working can do more than a thousand hands clasped in prayer.
-Unknown

I'm not an "atheist." How can you not believe in something that does not exist?
-Whitney Brown

An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers.
-Amanda Bloom

Religion is the opium of the masses.
-Karl Marx

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
-Tom Robbins

The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx

Religion is against women's rights and freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
-Taslima Nasrin

The bible and church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
-Elizabeth C. Stanton

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
-Frederick Douglass

The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail.
-Gustaf Lindborg

Every man thinks god is on his side. The rich and the powerful know he is.
-Jean Anouilh

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
-Jesse Ventura

Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things spontaneously by itself without their meddling.
-Lucretius

This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.
-John Adams

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison

Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
-Mark Twain

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
-Pierre Charron

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
-Richard Dawkins

As people become more intelligent, they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
-Robert Ingersoll

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
-Richard Dawkins

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
-Thomas Paine

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
-Blaise Pascal

All religions have been made by men.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Gods always behave like the people who created them.
-Zora Hurston

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
-Benjamin Franklin

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to the gods, then knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
-Baron D'Holbach

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
-Benjamin Disraeli

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
-Dan Barker

You can't convince a believer of anything; Their belief is not based on evidence, but a deep-seeded need to believe.
-Carl Sagan

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
-James Buchanan

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
-Thomas Jefferson

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls with our instinctual desires.
-Sigmund Freud

Believing in gods always causes confusion.
-Pearl S. Buck

It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however reassuring.
-Carl Sagan

The most heinous crimes have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
-Gandhi

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
-Mark Twain

For much of history, religion may have been a necessary evil, but why has it been more evil than necessary?
-Arthur C. Clarke

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and greatest cruelty.
-Ilka Chase

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
-Sigmund Freud

Faith is the determination to remain ignorant in the face of all evidence that you are ignorant.
-Shaun Mason

The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.
-Robert Ingersoll

The greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called religion.
-Thomas Paine

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God. This saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
-Edward Abbey

All natural institutions of churches appear to me as human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind.
-Thomas Pain

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
-Edward Abbey

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
-Benjamin Franklin

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason, and morality.
-Baron D'Holbach

The bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of the Christian Dogma.
-Abraham Lincoln

A believer that is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than a drunk man is happier than a sober one.
-George Bernard Shaw

All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
-Arthur C. Clarke

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-Sigmund Freud

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would neither be created nor destroyed it would simply be. What place then for a creator?
-Stephen Hawking

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.
-Carl Sagan

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche