Atheist Quotes - Page 14

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.