Atheism - Quotes and Proverbs

Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Here are some quotes about atheism.

Nature — Understand all things as a part of nature.

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All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Richard Dawkins

An 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 McCarthy

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

Atheism 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. Fields

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

Believe 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 Buddha

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

Richard Dawkins

Do 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 Dawkins

For those who are born into atheism, it's a faith like any other. The only real atheist is an ex-believer.

Gabriel Lauber

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.

(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 Dawkins

Humans 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 Dawkins

I believe that I believe in nothing.

Minkukel

I 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 Graffin

I don't think you need religion.

Terry Jones

I have tried but consistently failed to find anything in theology to be serious about.

Richard Dawkins

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman

I'm an atheist.

Stephen Hawking

If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.

David Eller

If 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 Dawkins

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Ignorance, if you are a theologian, is something to be washed away by shamelessly making something up.

Christopher Hitchens

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

George Harrison

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Mark Twain

Killing 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 Jagger

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Billy Graham

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins
Source: The God delusion

PROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

H.L. Mencken

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

George Herbert

The 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 Dawkins

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Daniel Dennett

There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.

Steven Pinker
Source: 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 Atkinson