best quotations about
Atheism |
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Quotations
 | Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 65 likes |
 | Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 25 likes |
 | God is dead. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 17 likes |
 | The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 17 likes |
 | A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. — Ricky Gervais, 1961-, British comedian & screenwriter 15 likes |
 | I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 13 likes |
| Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 11 likes |
 | The fact that Christians exist is a proof that God does not exist. — Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian surrealist & anarchist 10 likes |
 | If there were no God, there would be no atheists. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 10 likes |
 | 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. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 10 likes |
 | Yes, but we do not see the votive pictures of all those who suffered shipwreck and perished in the waves. — Diagoras of Melos, 5th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet & philosopher 10 likes |
 | A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. — Anonymous (wrongly attributed to Mencken, Oscar Wilde and others) 9 likes |
| It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for. — Ricky Gervais, 1961-, British comedian & screenwriter 9 likes |
 | Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 8 likes |
 | Maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 7 likes |
 | Everything is proof to the faithful. Everything is proof to the atheists. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 7 likes |
 | 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, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 6 likes |
 | If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
 | My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 6 likes |
 | When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 5 likes |
 | I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
| For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 4 likes |
 | The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes |
 | It’s a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, “Momma, do we believe in winter?” — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 4 likes |
 | A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. |
 | There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire –poison and antidote. |
 | I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. |
 | The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place. |
 | The prayer of the agnostic: “O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.” |
 | 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. |
 | For me, the single word “God” suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
| 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. |
 | Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. |
| The greatest error of our time is not to proclaim that God is dead, but to believe that the devil has died. |
Funny Quotes
 | Atheism is a non-prophet organization. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 21 likes |
 | The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 7 likes |
 | I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 5 likes |
 | Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. Ποίος Ζευς ; Ού μη ληρήσεις. Ουδ᾿ εστὶ Ζευς. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Clouds 15 likes |
