Atheist Quotes · Page 18

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

— Swami Vivekananda

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

— Bill Hicks

I don't want to be a born again anything; I was Born, OK the first time.

— Anonymous

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Laurence Sterne

' Being an Atheist must be like living in a closed cell,with no window!' Anthony Hopkins

— Andrew Guzaldo

“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in…

— Richelle Mead

“So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I…

— Aleksandar Hemon

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…

— Richard Posner

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast…

— Tariq Ali

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an…

— Julia Sweeney

“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.”

— Francis Perrin

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one…

— Jonathan Haidt

Corbyn, like me, is a republican and an atheist. How then can we possibly be expected to sing along to an anthem…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and…

— Jim Herrick

Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive…

— J. Anderson Thomson

“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialog with God. If he said…

— Sam Harris

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals,…

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much…

— Jodie Foster

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because…

— Christopher Hitchens

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the…

— Isaac Newton

Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the…

— George William Foote

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

— Gerhard Richter

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

— Mark Twain

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

— Anonymous

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

— Mike Huckabee

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Brian Eno

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

— Edward Feser

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

— Keira Knightley

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

— Albert Einstein

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

— Penn Jillette

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

— Carl Sagan

There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

— Frank Turek

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

— Thomas Gray

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

— Aubrey Menen