John Adams Quotes

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

What does an atheist scream when they come?

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

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.

I don’t approve of religion.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.