With
atheists, agnostics and free thinkers in mind.
Please
note these quotes were not all made by atheists, though many were.
Some of the quotes just have to do with logic, rational thinking
and being ostracized for not thinking with the majority.
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Quotes on Atheism - Part II
It
is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire
All
great truths begin as blasphemies. - George
Bernard Shaw
Beware
of the man of one book. -
Latin Proverb
SCRIPTURES,
n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from
the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
My
country is the world and my religion is to do good. -
Thomas Paine
The
Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than
any book that ever existed. - Thomas Paine
Better
to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven. -
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Faith:
not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
I cannot
believe in a God who wants to be praised all of the time.
- Freidrich Nietzsche
Impiety:
your irreverence toward my deity. - Ambrose
Bierce
All
religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignornace, ferocity;
and modern religions are only ancient follies rejuvenated. -
Baron D'Holbach
Religion
is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains
people as to how they shall think. - Arthur
Schopenhauer
Go
to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. - Mark
Twain
Faith,
fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some falsehood, hugs it to the last.
- Thomas
Moore
When
you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you
will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen
F. Roberts
We
have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make
us love one another. - Johnathan Swift
Faith
is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark
Twain
The
public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell
Most
people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they don't understand,
but the passages that bother me are the ones I do understand. -
Mark Twain
To
command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations
is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them to not
see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand,
and to find what they do not discover. - Galileo
Galilei, in response to pressure from the Church to support their
belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth
Be
not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto
thee than men understand. - Ecclesiasticus
3:24.
I say
quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in
its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral
progress in the world. - Bertrand Russell
Just
think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence
Darrow
A
casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not
prove anything. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I
am halfway through Genesis, and quite appalled by the disgraceful
behavior of all the characters involved, including God.
- J. R. Ackerley
[The
Bible] is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and
brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I
detest everything that is cruel. -
Thomas Paine
Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause
and reflect. - Mark Twain
The
further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain
it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith,
but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert
Einstein
I
am an atheist still, thank God.
- Luis Buñuel
I am
an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are
sure of. - Clarence Darrow
I
do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called
agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that
is all agnosticism means. - Clarence
Darrow, courtroom argument at the Scopes trial
Mysteries
are not necessarily miracles. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith
may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrences
of the improbable. -
H. L. Mencken
We
are constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and,
once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor
to erase them. -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The
devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - William
Shakespeare
Man
will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest. - Denis Diderot ( borrowed from Witty
Quotes )
The
Bible is literature, not dogma. -
George Santayana
If
I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment
in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result
of all my efforts. - Bertrand Russell
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