I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
Jawaharlal NehruMots clés belief death atheism hypocrisy delusion funeral religious-ceremonies
I am 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 other people.
Katharine HepburnMots clés kindness knowledge morality belief selflessness atheism atheist caring
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
Noam ChomskyMots clés belief atheism burden-of-proof explanation atheist question
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.
Antonin ScaliaMots clés belief satan skepticism spiritual-warfare
My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoMots clés progress equality questions free-will morality humanity belief nature fate atheism atheist control naturalism materialism islam muslim hinduism cosmopolitan inferiority hindu useless aid harmful divine-will atheistic natural-phenomena atheistic-outlook caste-system man-created-god religious-barriers social-reformer untouchables
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
AristophanesMots clés belief atheism burden-of-proof gods proof ancient-greek-atheism atheism-in-antiquity early-atheism
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
Lord ByronMots clés humor life belief atheism funny immortality speculation miserable
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
Charlie ChaplinMots clés belief atheism atheist common-sense superstition gods
[When asked about his thoughts on gods]
I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything. Man lived on the planet — [placing his fingers an inch apart], this is 5000 years of semi-recorded history. And God and the Bible, that came in somewhere around the middle, maybe 2000. This is the last 2000, this is what we're about to celebrate [indicating about an 1/8th of an inch with his fingers]. Now, humans, in some shape or form, have been on the earth for three million years [pointing across the room to indicate the distance]. So, all this time, from there [gesturing toward the other side of the room], to here [indicating the 1/8th of an inch], there was no God, there was no story, there was no myth and people lived on this planet and they wandered and they gathered and they did all these things. The planet was never threatened. How did they survive for all this time without this belief in God? I'd like to ask this to someone who knows about Christianity and maybe you do. That just seems funny to me.
Mots clés belief atheism funny myth meaning atheist humans popularity movie celebration planet millions-of-years
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
Rudolf VirchowMots clés science biology belief medicine pathology father-of-pathology
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