Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

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

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.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

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

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.

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.

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

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

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

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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