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  • The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America
  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

    Atheist   Two   Guy  
    "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.
  • Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

  • A man's ethical behaviour 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.

    Sympathy   God   Death  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books
  • All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

    Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2
  • 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 (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

    Funny   Witty   Powerful  
    Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925
  • Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

  • To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

    "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.
  • I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

    "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.
  • Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

    Atheist   Jesus   Stars  
    YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.
  • I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    Atheist   Pain   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4
  • I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

    Funny   Life   God  
    Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767
  • When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  • If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

  • Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

    Atheist   Real   Believe  
    Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1
  • 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.

    Life   Motivational   God  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books
  • This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”
  • For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  • If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

    Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam
  • As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

    "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.
  • We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

    Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
  • Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

    "The Lowest Animal" (1940)
  • It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

    Faith   Atheist   Believe  
    Following the Equator ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

    "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".
  • Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

    Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.82, Courier Corporation
  • With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

    God   Religious   Atheist  
    "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.
  • 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 (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan
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