Atheism Quotes - Page 17

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Christians are losers.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Dying is not a crime.

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.