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

“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

“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force — virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”
PZ Myers

“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

“Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?”
Robert G. Ingersoll

“The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic 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.”
George Bernard Shaw

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
Stephen Roberts

“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
John Buchan

“I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”
Clarence Darrow

“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated.”
Ulysses S. Grant

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”
Francis Bacon

“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

“I’m a born-again atheist.”
Gore Vidal

“Believing in gods always causes confusion.”
Pearl S. Buck

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.”
Anonymous

“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

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

“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.”
Anonymous

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”
George Carlin

“The Bible – A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate.”
Anonymous

“Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway.”
Anonymous

“Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.”
Jack Pritchard

“Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.”
Anonymous

“If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.”
Woody Allen

“On the first day, man created God.”
Anonymous

“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