Great Quotes for Atheists/Non-Believers (Part 2)Filed Under: Atheism

Due to the immense popularity of the first part of “Great Quotes for Atheists/Non-Believers,” I have come back with another list of great quotes for the atheist/agnostic/non-believer!

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? “
- Douglas Adams

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
- Douglas Adams

“I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
- Isaac Asimov

“Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.”
- John Burroughs

“[...] since the order of world is regulated by death, perhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him and we fight with all our might against death, without raising our eyes heavenward where he keeps silent.”
- Albert Camus

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.”
- George Carlin

“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history”
- Noam Chomsky

“Isn’t killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?”
- Arthur C. Clarke

“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”
- Clarence Darrow

“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

“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
- Thomas Edison

“I don’t try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
- Albert Einstein

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
- Sigmund Freud

“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.”
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation… “
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”
- Karl Marx

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
- Karl Marx

“Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.”
- H. L. Mencken

“Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities.”
- H. L. Mencken

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
- John Stuart Mill

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“A miracle signifies nothing more than an event… the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or…. which the narrator is unable to explain.”
- Baruch Spinoza

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning.”
- Voltaire

“Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.”
- Emile Zola

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