Atheist Quotes

“But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.”
― Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

“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

“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

“Christians believe:
If you love God you go to heaven.
If you don't go to heaven, you go to hell.
So, if you don't love God, you go to hell.
God created everything, including heaven and hell.
So he created a torture chamber, in case you don't love him back.

Crazy.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“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

“Protesting often times takes a stance of offense; a form of violence that may not always be physical but is a form of violence all the same. Everyone has the right to be heard, but only if they are willing to really listen to others in an attempt to understand. As an atheist, I have never stood outside a church and disrupted their gathering, although I am willing to have a conversation about how my journey brought me here and how you have come to this point. For me to enter a gathering and protest is an offensive move that would cause the people involved to put up walls. It would not be welcomed and I would not do it. It would be a hindrance to us actually knowing and understanding each other.

The only way to truly know someone is by being with them, by conversation.”
― Eric Overby

“If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite”
― Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

“There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn't wrong too?”
― Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

“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

“These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right”
― Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism

“If, when I die, I come face to face with God, I will allow him to seek my forgiveness.”
― Charles Paterson

“It's uncool to be religious. It's uncool to be an atheist. If someone asks what you believe in just say Amitabh Bachchan. It's the only way to be safe.”
― Nitya Prakash

“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

“And then people created a god at their own image to please themselves and silence the conscience.”
― Maria Nieves

“If the atheist is right the theist has lost nothing but if the theist is right the atheist has lost everything including his life. You cannot separate from the source of life and still have life.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“If the atheist is right the theist has lost nothing; he is accountable to no one, but if the theist is right the atheist has lost everything including his life; he is accountable to the one whose existence he has denied. You cannot separate from the source of life and still have life. Option of least risk is the best course.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Doesn't matter if you're a theist or atheist, if you force your beliefs on me, I'm not gonna like you. As simple as that.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Look, see: the universe does nothing. Victim or monster, there is no one to help.  God is dead. We should have tried to do our best without him.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

“By a show of hands," Kirsch continued, "how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan?" He paused, and then laughed. "Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods." He paused. "I simply choose to go one god further.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Jesus is the answer; to questions such as ‘Who is said to have walked on water?’, not our problems.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Atheism is the color of a blind”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar