2,387 Quotes About Atheism

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart.{Letter to John Adams, from Monticello, 15 August 1820}

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

Look, see: the universe does nothing. Victim or monster, there is no one to help.  God is dead. We should have tried to do our best without him.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.