Sam Harris Quotes

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

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

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

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

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

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

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

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

I am a daylight atheist.

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

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

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.