Atheist Quotes

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

I don't believe in atheists.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

Atheists are not Americans.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.