Quotes & Sayings About Atheism Positive

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know. — Emily Dickinson

There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge. — Francis Collins

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Science is the only savior. — Luther Burbank

What can I hope when all is right? — Voltaire

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am. — Luther Burbank

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be. — Eric Hoffer

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life. — Harriet Martineau

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God. — Emily Dickinson

The Truth never flaunted a sign. — Emily Dickinson

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas. — Arthur Miller

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are ranked according to a human-development index, which measures such factors as life expectancy, literacy rates, and educational attainment, the five highest-ranked countries
Norway, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands
all have high degrees of nonbelief. Of the fifty countires at the bottom of the index, all are intensly religious. The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are the least religious. These associations say nothing about whether atheism leads to positive social indicators or the other way around. But the idea that atheists are somehow less moral, honest, or trustworthy have been disproven by study after study. — Greg Graffin

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin. — Thomas Paine