Sam Harris Quotes

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I don't believe in God.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

I don’t approve of religion.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

I'm not a religious person at all.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I don't believe in God.

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.

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.