Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Haruki Murakami

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.

Warren Mitchell

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Ronald Reagan

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Saint Augustine

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Will Rogers

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

Will Rogers

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Yuri Gagarin

I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space.

Sara Paretsky

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Vladimir Lenin

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

Virginia Woolf

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Samuel Richardson

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

William Gurnall

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Voltaire

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Voltaire

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Voltaire

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Voltaire

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

Voltaire

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Voltaire

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

William Butler Yeats

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Sarah Bernhardt

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Salman Rushdie

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

William Congreve

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.