For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.

Frank Zappa

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Simone de Beauvoir

To YOU I'm an atheist;
to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Woody Allen

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Gloria Steinem

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

Bertrand Russell

Suppose we've chosen the wrong god.
Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.

Homer Simpson

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

It is usually
when men are at their most religious
that they behave with the least sense
and the greatest cruelty.

Ilka Chase

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.


Susan Ertz

Scientific research confirms that humans are a link in the evolutionary life chain. There is no credible evidence for the existence of an immortal supernatural element. Our only life is here and now.
Make it worthy of a moral person.

Keith S Cornish
Past President (1975-2005)
Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc

Religion is not merely
the opium of the masses,
it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish (Muslim) Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.

Tom Paine

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 other people.

Katharine Hepburn

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom.
In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Taslima Nasrin

ATHEISM =
Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.

Brenda Cornish
Former Treasurer
Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc

Atheist Quote For Today

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

At a time of universal deceit -
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.

Mark Twain

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Delo McKown

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.
I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have.
Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic.
I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Isaac Asimov

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

The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence.
It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

Stephen Hawking

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Susan B Anthony

Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling block
in the way of women's emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Bernard Shaw

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist.
Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision,
to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Gene Roddenberry

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

I don't believe in God
because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religions are like fireflies.
They require darkness in order to shine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No Gods - No Masters.

Margaret Sanger

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Robert G. Ingersoll