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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Hypatia of Alexandria

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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves, or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Ayn Rand

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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

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God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Voltaire

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen

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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

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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 each other.

Katherine Hepburn

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

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Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.

Isaac Asimov

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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

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So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

Thomas Edison

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Richard Dawkins

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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns

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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln