Quotes against religion
102 quotes from 58 people
Blasphemy is a padlock which hypocrisy tries to put on the lips of all honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Blasphemy lecture delivered at Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to Ingersoll’s departure for Europe, February 22d, 1885 (reproduced at pg. 105).Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Victor Hugo1802–1885Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
George Carlin1937–2008“Interview With Jesus”
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 11. Memes: the new replicators
Voltaire1694–1778Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano’s, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 160 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937“The Temple”—Written 1920; first published in Weird Tales, 6 No. 3 (September 1925)- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter III, Christianity Misunderstood by Believers