Atheist Quotes

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.