101 Atheist Quotes

[hammertime33]

Archie Bunker on Faith - YouTube

[Rob Allen]

H.L. Mencken in a letter to Will Durant:

"As for religion, I am quite devoid of it. Never in my adult life have I experienced anything that could be plausibly called a religious impulse."

He elaborates further. The full text of the letter is at Letters of Note: On the Meaning of Life

[TheArchitect]

For everything in the world...the truest guide is knowledge and science.
To seek a guide other than knowledge and science is a mark of heedlessness, ignorance, and aberration.

--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

[TheArchitect]

For everything in the world...the truest guide is knowledge and science.
To seek a guide other than knowledge and science is a mark of heedlessness, ignorance, and aberration.

--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

[LargeKingCat]

[SIZE=3]Religion can never reform mankind, because religion is slavery. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Robert Ingersoll[/SIZE]

[nana053]

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

“There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

“But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church...The less they believe, the better for their own happiness and development...

"For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power, and the cannon law." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1896

"Christianity is an insult to the wisdom of the nineteenth century. To place before its progress and development a leader, ruler, king, saviour, god, whose knowledge was less than a modern five year old school girl, is an outrage upon humanity." - Ella E. Gibson, 1870

"Possessing no proof of its (God's) existence, the church has ever fostered unintelligent belief. To doubt her "unverified" assertion has even been declared an unpardonable sin." -- Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1890

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages." -- Ruth Hurmence Green

"Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination." -- Margaret Knight 1955

"Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of man to fry ants?" --Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1923