FAMOUS ATHEIST QUOTES ABOUT GOD

“I am an atheist; I don’t believe in God where everyone talks about him. But I try to lead my life accordingly, in an honest way. And that’s where faith comes in.” – Salman Rushdie

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.” – Albert Einstein

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen Roberts

“I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.” – Katharine Hepburn

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” – Seneca the Younger

“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.” – Dan Barker

“I don’t see any evidence for God, but I also don’t see any evidence that there is no God.” – Carl Sagan

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.” – Chapman Cohen

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.” – Francis Bacon

“I am an atheist and that’s it. I believe that there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.” – Katharine Hepburn

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation, is that good for the world?” – Christopher Hitchens

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.” – John Buchan

“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” – Richard Dawkins

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens I MAY NOT BE THE BEST PERSON QUOTES

“I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.” – Clarence Darrow

“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” – Mark Twain

“If atheism is a belief system, then off is a TV channel.” – Bill Maher

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” – Richard Dawkins

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.” – Paul Kurtz

“If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.” – Edmond de Goncourt

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” – George Bernard Shaw

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” – Albert Einstein

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” – Epicurus

“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” – Bertrand Russell

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali