Best 2951 quotes in «atheism quotes» category

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

Morality does not depend on religion.

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.

Never king dropped out of the clouds.

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.

No man is above the law.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death.... I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it as it were - and never opened it to my knowledge.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

No one ever dies an atheist.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.