2,387 Quotes About Atheism

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.