George Orwell

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." 

Nietzsche

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

Charles Moffat

"Trying to convert an atheist to a religion is like trying to turn water into wine. It isn't going to happen so don't waste your time." 

Gene Roddenberry

"Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all."

Paul Hampson

"Religion creates the most useful of slaves: those who think they are free." 

Richard Dawkins

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." 

Richard Dawkins

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and passage of time" 

George Carlin

"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man . . . living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of 10 specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."

Bill Maher

 “…it gives people comfort and doesn’t hurt anything..” ....... “Other than, most wars, the crusades, the inquisition, 911, arranged marriages to minors, blowing up girls schools, the suppression of women and homosexuals, fatwas, ethnic cleansing, honor rape, human sacrifice, burning witches, suicide bombing, condoning slavery and the systematic f*ing of children…I’ve got a few problems.”

Alan Watts

 "The true believer justifies and even glorifies his invincible stupidity as a 'leap of faith' or 'sacrifice of the intellect."

Plato

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."

Nikola Tesla

"What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride.... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment." 

Emma Goldman

"Religion is a superstition that originated in man's inability to solve natural phenomena."

Sigmund Freud

"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life."