Richard Dawkins Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

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.

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.

All thinking men are atheists.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

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

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

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

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.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

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.

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

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