Richard Dawkins Quotes

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

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

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'