Atheist Quotes

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

Without God, life is everything.

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.