Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Here are some quotes about atheism.
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All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest HemingwayAlthough atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard DawkinsAn atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.
John McCarthyAtheism is a non-prophet organization.
George CarlinAtheism is a religion, like "barefoot" is a shoe.
(unknown author)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.
Emmett F. FieldsBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Kurt VonnegutBelieve nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
Gautama BuddhaNo matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.
Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
Richard DawkinsDo polytheists have more wrong beliefs than monotheists?
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Richard DawkinsFor those who are born into atheism, it's a faith like any other. The only real atheist is an ex-believer.
Gabriel LauberGive 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.
(unknown author)God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard DawkinsHumans are capable of unbelievable cruelty, whether in the name of God or while denying his existence.
(unknown author)I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsI believe that I believe in nothing.
MinkukelI don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.
Greg GraffinI don't think you need religion.
Terry JonesI have tried but consistently failed to find anything in theology to be serious about.
Richard DawkinsI once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny YoungmanI'm an atheist.
Stephen HawkingIf atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
David EllerIf children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard DawkinsIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VoltaireSi Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonIgnorance, if you are a theologian, is something to be washed away by shamelessly making something up.
Christopher HitchensIs man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheIsn'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 AdamsIt is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
George HarrisonIt's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark TwainKilling for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
Mick JaggerMan is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy GrahamMy personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard DawkinsPantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard DawkinsSource: The God delusion
PROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
H.L. MenckenReligions are just ideas, and don't have rights.
Steven PinkerSmall amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis BaconThat which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher HitchensThe devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George HerbertThe universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard DawkinsThere are no good reasons to believe in god.
Daniel DennettThere is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
They're fighting over which religion is the most peaceful.
(unknown author)To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
Rowan AtkinsonWe are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard DawkinsWe cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Richard DawkinsWhat would be the point of atheism in the absence of religion?
Frans de WaalWhen you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
Stephen RobertsWhen men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco