Atheism Quotes - Page 6

My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

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

God help those who do not help themselves.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.