Atheism Quotes - Page 30

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.