Quotes From Famous Atheists (Jesus, blood, prophet, atheist)

[MontanaGuy]

Samuel Clemens, known to the world as Mark Twain was a truly great writer, was very witty and also happened to be an atheist. Someone once asked him whether he feared death and he said that he did not in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Here's a few of his quotes.

Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

"'In God We Trust.' I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."

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

"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."

"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad."

[yydanay515]

Montana Guy, look up Robert Ingersoll if you REALLY want some great quotes. He was not an atheist, but nonetheless, as an agnostic, he came up with some great ones about the Bible and its god.

[ShepsMom]

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
Woody Allen


"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
Author Unknown


"When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything."
G.K. Chesterson


"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[Tricky D]

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)

To me politics and religion are the same and I guess that Ghandi and Mao agree with me.

[eddie gein]

My prophet Lionel Boyd Johnson once said:

"Anyone who thinks they know what God is up to is a fool.............and so am I."

It comes from his parable known as "The Lady and the Doghouse Blueprints."

[sanspeur]

"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night" Isaac Asimov

"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." Benjamin Franklin,

"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. " Clarence Seward Darrow

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." Gene Roddenberry

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution." James Madison

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." John Adams

[cleatis]

Eternal flames of judgment: keeping people from asking too many questions for 3500 years...

-Cleatis

[yayoi]

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent."
"Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent."
"Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil?"
"Is he neither willing, nor able? Then why call him God?"

~Epicurus

[b. frank]

"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (edit: not exactly a famous atheist quote, but still apt)

[ptsum]

Here are a few quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll, also known as The Great Agnostic.

Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?

You can hardly expect a bishop to leave his palace, or the Pope to vacate the Vatican. As long as people want popes, plenty of hypocrites will be found to take the place.

He who endeavors to control the mind by force is a Tyrant, He who submits is a slave.

Congregations should allow the minister a little liberty. They should, at least, permit him to tell the truth.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish, if a little more enlightened, religion would perish!

Interesting enough, Robert Green Ingersoll was the son of a Methodist Minister.