Atheism Quotes - Page 2

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

belief is the death of intelligence.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.