Quotes from Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

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.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

Religion is induced insanity.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.