Charles Bradlaugh Atheism Quotations

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

A mere society form of Atheism.

The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...