Top 50+ Atheism Quotes

Famous Atheism Quotes

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins

Atheism is a non-prophet organization. – George Carlin

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. – Francis Bacon

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. – Slavoj Zizek

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. – Edmond de Goncourt

If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby. – David Eller

If god doesn’t like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you.

Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. – T. S. Eliot

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti

History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. – Giulian Buzila

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. – Francis Bacon

Atheism Quotes

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. – John C. Wright

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. – Vladimir Lenin

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. – Deitrich Bonhoeffer

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can’t see.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. – Denis Diderot

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. – Mikhail Bakunin

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. – Tom Stoppard

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man’s ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. – Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths. – Denis Diderot

An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support. – Aldous Huxley

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. – Karl Marx

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. – Blaise Pascal

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. – Sam Harris

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. – Mohandas Gandhi

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy. – Austin O’Malley

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. – Stephen  Roberts

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All religion is slavery. – Robert G. Ingersol

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people how they shall think. – Arthur Schopenhauer

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. – George Herbert

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God. – Ann Hood

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. – Francis Bacon

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. – Pearl S. Buck

Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. – Superintendent Chalmers

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God. – Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – Chapman Cohen

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species. – Kirk Cameron

Whatever there is of God in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. – Albert Einstein

Atheism is easy in fair weather. – Ronald Dunn

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it. – Mark Twain

Nothing enlarges more the gulf of atheism, than that wide passage, which lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to be Christians. – Edward Stillingfleet

Atheism Quotes

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease. – Clark Adams

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. – Taylor Caldwell

God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. – Francis Bacon

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. – Heywood Broun 

God is a book I can no longer read. When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing they believe in everything. – Umberto Eco

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. – Blaise Pascal

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God. – Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil

I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. – Douglas Adams 

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Edward Gibbon