Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Pullman

I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.

Plato

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Julian Barnes

It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Sean M. Carroll

Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

Leonard Peikoff

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

Lee Kuan Yew

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God. So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

Taslima Nasrin

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Taslima Nasrin

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

Taslima Nasrin

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Taslima Nasrin

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

Taslima Nasrin

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Tariq Ramadan

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

Tariq Ramadan

The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

Stephen Levine

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

Neil Peart

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Marcus Aurelius

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Thomas A. Edison

So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk.

Simon Conway Morris

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

Swami Vivekananda

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

Swami Vivekananda

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

Robert Andrews Millikan

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A. Heinlein

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Robert A. Heinlein

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Tom Stoppard

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

Tom Stoppard

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

Tim LaHaye

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

Sam Harris

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Sam Harris

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Sam Harris

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.

Sam Harris

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.