GOOD ATHEIST QUOTES

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“I’m an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.” – Katharine Hepburn

“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.” – Georges Duhamel

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

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

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.” – Tim Minchin

“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.” – Charlie Chaplin

“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?” – Douglas Adams

“The world holds two classes of men – intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.” – Abu Ala Al-Ma’arri

“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 one was an atheist because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. 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.” – Isaac Asimov

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.” – Clarence Darrow

“I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.” – Albert Einstein

“The tragedy of religious intolerance is that as soon as a person believes in something as exclusive and dogmatic, his belief supersedes his humanity.” – Steve Maraboli

“Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.” – Mark Twain

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.” – Francis Bacon

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” – Richard Dawkins

“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

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God who creates flawed humans, and then blames them for his mistakes.” – Gene Roddenberry

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan

“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.” – Timothy Jones

“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.” – Carl Sagan

“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.” – Stephen Roberts

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

“The fact that there’s a Highway to Hell and only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Praying to some deity is like asking Santa Claus to bring you gifts. It’s just a childish wish that won’t come true.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein