It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

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

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Today’s religion will be the future‘s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

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

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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.

If it turns out that there is a God…the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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’.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

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.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

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?

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

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.

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

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

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.

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, ‘Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!’

The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.