GOD IS NOT GREAT QUOTES

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

“Gods don’t kill people. People with gods kill people.” – David Viaene

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your … mouth shut and hadn’t asked any questions.” – Frank Zappa

“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

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” – Voltaire

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.” – Bertrand Russell

“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth.” – H. L. Mencken

“Perhaps the most terrible thing about paradise was not that it was sexist, but that it was in fact merely a foyer to hell.” – Christopher Hitchens

“All thinking men are atheists.” – Ernest Hemingway

“God is a verb, not a noun.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.” – Douglas Adams

“I cannot believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.” – Clarence Darrow IM TIRED QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.” – Richard Lederer

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

“I do not believe in the God of Christianity or Judaism, but I am perfectly willing to admit that the existence of such a God might be probable.” – Isaac Asimov

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” – Denis Diderot

“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

“God: a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” – Ayn Rand

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

“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.” – 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

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” – Richard Dawkins

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” – Steven Weinberg

“The God of the Bible is the archetypal cosmic dictator; petty, vindictive, resourceful, jealous of his prerogatives, and capable of terrible acts of violence and cruelty when his infinite ego is slighted or threatened.” – Sam Harris