Atheism Quotes - Page 10

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

Then why did you tell me?

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.