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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
― Edmond de Goncourt

“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
― Richard Pryor

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

“An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
― Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.”
― Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap

“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
― Stephen Hawking

“I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.”
― Ruth Hurmence Green

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

“I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.”
― Brad Pitt

“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”
― Mark Twain

“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”
― Robert Ingersoll

“If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?”
― David Powers

“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”
― Francis Thompson

“[Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood