Bill Maher Quotes

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.

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

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

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

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

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

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.

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

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

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I don't believe in God.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I'm not a religious person at all.

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

I don't believe in God.