"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose" by Clarence Darrow
“The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.” by Mark Twain in Letters from the Earth
“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” by Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, July, 1932
“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.” by Mohandas Gandhi (Leader of India’s movement for independence) from The Degeneration of Belief
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." by Clarence Darrow (Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925)
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.” by Albert Einstein, “Religion and Science”, New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." by Don Hirschberg
"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms." by Robert Ingersoll (agnostic attorney, lecturer)
"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 blind-folded fear." by Thomas Jefferson (American Founding Father)
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." by Albert Einstein
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." by Isaac Asimov (writer)
"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it." by Albert Einstein
"All thinking men are atheists." by Ernest Hemingway (writer) in Farwell to Arms
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies." by Benjamin Franklin (American Founding Father, author, and inventor)
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." by Thomas Paine (coined the name "United States of America")
"I am a born-again atheist" by Gore Vidal (US author (1925- ))
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." by Carl Sagan