Great Atheism Quotes
Mark Twain
"There
are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and
shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what
you know ain't so.""Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
Blaise Pascal
"Men
never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for
religious convictions."Isaac Asimov
"Although the time of death is approaching me,
I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be
considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I
expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible
fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.""Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Which is it, is man one of
God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?""Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown."
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
Albert Einstein
"If people are good only
because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry
lot indeed.""What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of “humility.” This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
Susan B. Anthony
"I distrust those people who
know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always
coincides with their own desires."