Atheism Quotes
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.
How long, O how long will mankind worship a book? How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past? How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
If there is a God, Atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
When scriptural laws conflict with what is righteous and just, there written text loses its relevance.
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian.
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
To want to renounce the illusions concerning our proper situation implies that we renounce the situation that needs such illusions. The critique of religion demands the critique of the valley of tears of which religion is the aureola... The critique of religion must rid man of his illusions in order that he may think, act and build his reality as a being who has finally become reasonable, in order that his world rotate about himself, that is to say, about only true sun. Religion is merely a illusory sun.
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 gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk.
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair colour.
Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
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.
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
