A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer God than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible Gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods

It is extremely naïve to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us, and cannot be contradicted, then how could anyone possibly contradict laws of conduct set forth by that being?

If the prodigal sons a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe god is just figure of speech.

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a
servant, a serf or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world - not even in
infinite space. I was free - free to think, to express my thoughts - free to live to my own ideal
- free to live for myself and those I loved - free to use all my faculties, all my senses - free
to spread imagination's wings - free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope - free to
judge and determine for myself - free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired"
books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past - free from popes
and priests - free from all the "called" and "set apart" - free from sanctified mistakes and
holy lies - free from the fear of eternal pain - free from the winged monsters of the night -
free from devils, ghosts and gods. For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited
places in all the realms of thought - no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her
painted wings - no chains for my limbs - no lashes for my back - no fires for my flesh - no
master's frown or threat - no following another's steps - no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl,
or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds.

If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair colour.

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

There’s no reason for me to believe that God exists, so I don’t.

Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

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.

All Bibles are man-made.

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Confronted with the universe, with fields of space sown thick with stars, with all there is of life, the wise man, being asked the origin and destiny of all, replies: "I do not know. These questions are beyond the powers of my mind." The wise man is thoughtful and modest. He clings to facts. Beyond his intellectual horizon he does not pretend to see. He does not mistake hope for evidence or desire for demonstration. He is honest. He neither deceives himself nor others.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

If the book the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

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

All children are atheists - they have no idea of God.