Gustave Le Bon Quotes

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

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."

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.

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

I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Obstinacy in religious understanding leads to backwardness as in Muslims’, prevalence of violence and intolerance.

In El Paso, the people are homicidal but orthodox.

We’re not fighting for Christianity but against human fanaticism of all kinds.

It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

If Christianity were true, religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them, many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.

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

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

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

But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?