top atheist quotes (total: 15805)
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| Thomas D. Pate |
And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods. |
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| unknown |
Blasphemy is a victimless crime |
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Carl Sagan |
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. |
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| HSM |
The Christian god makes man human, then burns him when he acts like one. |
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| Judith Hayes |
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. |
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Stephen Jay Gould |
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most |
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| Josh Charles |
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? |
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Richard Dawkins |
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. |
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| Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez |
God should be executed for crimes against humanity. |
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Richard Dawkins |
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. |
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| Stephen King |
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window |
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| Taslima Nasrin |
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? |
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| Nick Kinnan |
Children are born without religion, don't give them your nerosis. |
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| Me |
Science flies people to the moon, religion flies people into buildings. |
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| Nogard |
If god created my brain I'm certain he approves of its usage. |
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| unknown |
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
In 1000 years we will all be Atheist or we will no longer be. |
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| Jesse Ventura |
Religion is a crutch for the weak minded. |
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| Pope Leo X |
It has served us well, this myth of Christ. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
It is very difficult to reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. |
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| Michael |
A good king inspires loyalty. An evil tyrant demands blind obediance. A good king allows those who do not want to serve him leave in peace. An evil tyrant kills and tortures those who will not be slaves. This is why I could never be christian. |
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| British comedian (sorry I forgot the name) |
When I was a child I had an imaginary friend to whom I talked. Then I grew up and became an atheist. |
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Voltaire |
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. |
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| Unknown |
Primates often have trouble imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male |
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Mark Twain |
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
"With soap, baptism is a good thing." |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
In Nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
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| Daniel Boorstin |
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
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George Carlin |
Interstingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to God ar all answered at about the same 50% rate |
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| Nogard |
A religious text should ideally not extend past three pages. Any longer and it tends to contradict itself. |
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| unknown |
"Who created god? If your answer is he always was, then why can't you say the same for the universe?" |
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John Kelly Ireland |
Who are the bigger fool's, those who are born stupid or those who choose stupidity? |
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| Sigmund Freud |
"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life." |
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| Daryl Elliott |
"All religions are cults of varying degrees." |
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| Ed Martin |
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point |
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| unknown |
The Bible has fingerprints all over it. And none of them are God-sized. |
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| Frank Zappa |
"Children are naive -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble." |
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| Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. |
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Penn Jillette |
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. |
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| John Adams |
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. |
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H. L. Mencken |
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind--that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. |
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| Steve Buscemi "The Island" |
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. |
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| Frank Zappa |
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. |
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| Kozy |
If all exclusive religions are right and everyone else is wrong, isn't everyone just wrong? |
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| KANT |
The death of dogma is the birth of reality. |
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| Wilfredo Hernandez |
All churchs beat the devil good, but they are very carefull not to kill him! |
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| Cogito |
How difficult would it be for 11 men to hang a traitor, move a boulder, remove a body, and replace said boulder within a period of three days? |
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| Stendhal |
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. |
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| Eric Williams |
Religion serves men as blinders serve horses. |
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