Atheist Quotes

“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
― Ajay Kansal, The Evolution of Gods: The Scientific Origin of Divinity And Religions

“I know why this is Lucy's favorite song. Lucy believes in a world that's fair. As she recites, clear and crisp, I realize I believe in that world, too. I just don't believe in a god who will create it for us. I think we'll have to do it on our own.”
― Katie Henry, Heretics Anonymous

“Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Sherrie described atheism as a positive system of belief—one based on data, exploration and observation rather than scripture, creed and prayer. Atheists believe that human life is a chemical phenomenon, that our first parents were super-novas that happened billions of years ago—that humans are inexplicable miracles in a universe of structured chaos. Atheists believe that when we die, we will turn into organic debris which will continue cycling for billions of years in various incarnations.
Sherrie explained that atheists appreciate life unfathomably because it is going to end. No one who takes atheism seriously dies without hope.”
― Israel Morrow, Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

“It is easy to see all that separates this mode of being in the world from the existence of a nonreligious man. First of all, the nonreligious man refuses transcendence, accepts the relativity of ' 'reality," and may even come to doubt the meaning of existence. The great cultures of the past too have not been entirely without nonreligious men, and it is not impossible that such men existed even on the archaic levels of culture, although as yet no testimony to their existence there has come to light. But it is only in the modern societies of the West that nonreligious man has developed fully. Modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to transcendence. In other words, he accepts no model for humanity outside the human condition as it can be seen in the various historical situations. Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“No! No! I refuse to believe it. I'm sure you've often wished there was an after-life.'

Of course I had, I told him. Everybody has that wish at times. But that had no more importance than wishing to be rich, or to swim very fast, or have a better-shaped mouth.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“She was not a Christian in the accepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever worked among us as a young artisan.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Ours is an illusionless humanism that cares about protecting our species, especially from itself. We must forgive humanity, and ourselves, for being what we are – neither angels nor beasts...”
― André Comte-Sponville, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

“Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.”
― André Comte-Sponville

“God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor

“Religion is one of the oils with which we alleviate the friction between those who have a lot and those who have nothing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“At least all Gods except one are man-made.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I claim not one religion, practice or belief. I do, however, study all of them. I'm disappointed.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“The belief that heaven is above us was made even more ridiculous by the discovery of the fact that the world is not flat but round.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people have exercised their right to create their own God.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A religion which supplies only mercy and forgiveness must create demand through systems of oppression. The genius of Christianity is that it caters to opposite extremes--the oppressed who demands mercy and the oppressor who demands forgiveness.”
― Israel Morrow

“Wicca is just extreme LARPing. Then again, so is every other religion.”
― oliver markus malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“While an ever-increasing number of people consider themselves agnostic, the great majority of these people live as if they are atheists, bereft of all the magnificent life-enhancing benefits a God-centered life provides. These individuals are agnostics intellectually, but atheists behaviorally. Such people need to make a choice: Will I live as if there is a God or as if there is no God? You can be an agnostic intellectually, but you cannot live as an agnostic; you live as either a believer or as an atheist. You live either as if life is random chance or as if it is infused with ultimate meaning. Moses chose to look carefully and see a miracle in that burning bush. If we look carefully, we, too, will see a miracle—in everything.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Exodus

“Control is a thinly veiled illusion that deceives and seduces mankind.”
― Charles Paterson

“Religion is great at instilling the fear of hell, but awful at giving a taste of heaven.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Silence leads to acceptance, which leads to liberation. All of our conditioning is then suspended; so, too, are morals, manners, even simple courtesy. Dogmas, rules, commandments, churches, political parties, opinions, doctrines, ideologies, and gurus fall away. All that remains is reality. All that remains is truth. How free we suddenly feel!”
― André Comte-Sponville, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

“I don't believe in experts or atheist, they don't exist.”
― R.A.Delmonico

“I don't believe in atheists.”
― R.A. Delmonico

“Some people would have achieved way more if they had never prayed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you read many books, you may or may not become an atheist, but if you read 'nature', you will surely become a theist!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“আপনি যদি অনেক বই পড়েন, তবে আপনি হয়তো অধার্মিক লোকে পরিণত হতে বা নাও হতে পারেন, কিন্তু আপনি যদি প্রকৃতিকে পড়েন, তবে নিশ্চয়ই আপনি একজন ধার্মিক লোকে পরিণত হবেন!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Should the whole culture stand up and vehemently scorn the principles of God, we should likewise stand in committed defense of them. And despite the commitment of the culture to the abolishment of God, when the smoke clears everything will have stood-down except those who stood-up for God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s never a fool’s errand to have goals bigger than what we are. Rather, the fool’s errand is believing that there’s no such thing as a God who’s bigger than what our goals are.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An atheist is essentially a person who believes in a rational world that works on the basis of certain natural laws without any interference from any `Supreme Being` or God.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“There is a power beyond science. If it was not so, the whole world would have become misanthrope and atheist.”
― Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer