Atheist Quotes

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

No atheist says there is no god!

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

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

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

God is the absolute truth...

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

The atheist has no hope.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.