Atheist Quotes

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." - John Buchan

Though the number of atheists may be insignificant when compared with the number of theists the world over, the words of wisdom coming from them can't be ignored. It really requires a whole lot of courage to stand against the religious masses or question their motives, and some famous atheists have been doing the same for quite some time. Everybody believes that critical thinking is the need of the hour, but we seem the forget this very fact when it comes to our belief in God and religion. Since a long time, atheists and rationalists have been thriving to inculcate critical thinking in the minds of gullible masses who have been blindly following the word of some nonexistent entity, and the compilation of these quotes on atheism will give you an idea of their commitment to make the world free of deceit in the name of God and religion.

Famous Atheist Quotes about God

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." - Isaac Asimov

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the God does not work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." - Emo Philips

"It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image." - Ludwig Feuerbach

"God represents all that is hope. He is not mankind's savior." - Bradley Wood.

"A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created." - Anonymous

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." - Bertrand Russell

"I refuse to believe in a God who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'." - Mike Fuhrman

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." - Albert Einstein

Celebrated Atheist Quotes about Religion

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger

"In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners." - Jonathon Miller

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Anonymous

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." - Karl Marx

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig

"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life." - Sigmund Freud

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger

"Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true." - Anonymous

"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." - Steven Weinberg

"Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people." - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

Best Atheist Quotes about Life

"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." - Anonymous

"I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life." - Andrew Carnegie

"Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?" - Anonymous

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." - Mark Twain

"Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one." - Jim Crawford

"A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it." - David Stevens

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence." - Doug McLeod

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

Though they may be hard-hitting at times, and at times funny, there is no questioning the fact that they are thought provoking indeed. Not many people would like these quotes on atheism as they question the very creation of the entity they regard to be the creator. But that doesn't hold these famous atheists back from speaking their mind out, and we can just hope they will continue doing so!