Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly.

Carl Sagan

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

Bill Vaughan

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Bill Vaughan

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

Bill Hicks

What does an atheist scream when they come?

Robert Lewis

It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right

Julia Sweeney

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

John Donne

Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do?

Benjamin Whichcote

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

Charlton Heston

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Ludwig von Mises

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.

Hans Jonas

Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

Ray Comfort

If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'

Bertrand Russell

I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

John C. Wright

One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.

James Thurber

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

James Madison

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

James Madison

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

John F. Kerry

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

John Donne

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

John Dewey

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

Edward Teller

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Jose Saramago

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

Jonathan Swift

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Ludwig Feuerbach

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.