Great Quotes

"Gods always behave like the people who created them"

-Zora Hurston

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes and you say we're the ones that need help?"

-Dan Barker

"You can't convince a believer of anything; their belief is not based on evidence but a deep-seated need to believe."

"It is better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however reasurring."

-Carl Sagan

"The most heinous crimes have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity has come of age it should be left behind."

-Sigmund Freud

"The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it."

-Robert Ingersoll

"Whatever we cannot understand we call god. This saves us a lot of wear and tear on the brain tissues."

-Edward Abbey

"All natural institutions of churches appear to be human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind."

-Thomas Paine

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

-Benjamin Franklin

"All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance, and ferocity."

-Baron D'Holbach

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession."
-Abraham Lincoln

"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."

-David Attenborough

"Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the bible could not be true."

-Albert Einstein

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk man is happier than a sober one."

-George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."

-Sigmund Freud

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

"All thinking men are atheists."

-Ernest Hemmingway

"Religions are all alike founded upon fables and mythologies."
-Thomas Jefferson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it."

-John Adams

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

-Mark Twain