Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.”

“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 whole concept of God is a nonsensical illusion.”

“I want to be remembered as the woman who got prayer out of the schools.”

“Man has created God in his own image, not the other way around.”

“The relationships that people have - that are sexual, that are intimate, that are loving - they're all part of a real person's life.”

“Legally, I am an obnoxious person. I am not a nice person.”

“Christianity has been the most bloody religion on the face of the earth.”

“Atheism is the knowledge that there is no god.”

“The demand that school finances be separated from the state is not an attack on the schools. It is a demand for religious freedom.”

“I love a good fight. I don't know if I have a good punch, but I have a good kick.”

“The church is a parasitic institution that thrives on the ignorance of the masses.”

“The atheist is the one who is actually interested in this world, not the next one.”

“An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.”

“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”

“Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science.”