ATHEISM QUOTES

 

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus (341 - 270 BCE)

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 - 65 CE)

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.
Gene Roddenberry (1921 - 1991)

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Religion is an insult to human dignity.
Without you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

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

Faith is believing something you know ain't true.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemmingway (1899 - 1961)

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.
Stephen King

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I;
and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
Richard Dawkins

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods;
that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them;
that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.
Paul Henri Thiry - Baron D'Holbach (1723 - 1789)

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance, ferocity; and modern religions are only ancient follies.
Paul Henri Thiry - Baron D'Holbach (1723 - 1789)

God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?
Unknown

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality.
Paul Henri Thiry - Baron D'Holbach (1723 - 1789)

All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, appear to me no other than human inventions,
set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?
If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future?
If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers?
If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw (1751 - 1813)