Atheist Quotes · Page 21

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

— Anonymous

“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

— Javed Akhtar

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

— Daniel Dennett

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

— Trevor Treharne

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the…

— Stephen Hawking

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to…

— Robin Ince

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that…

— Augustus Hare

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

— Richard Posner

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every…

— Gene Roddenberry

I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good…

— Huston Smith

Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I…

— Swami Vivekananda

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are…

— Victor Hugo

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I…

— Anonymous

Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under…

— Henry Benjamin Whipple

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath…

— Francis Collins

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to…

— John F. Kennedy

“You’ve lost faith in yourself? Isn’t that rich? A god who’s become a self-atheist!”

— Orson Scott Card

It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God

— Tom Stoppard

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

— C. S. Lewis

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

— Steven Weinberg

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

— Nat Hentoff

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

— Anonymous

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

— Cormac McCarthy

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

— Hu Shih

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think,

— Ray Comfort

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

— Mark Twain

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

— Bill Maher

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

— Dan Barker

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

— Terry Pratchett

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

— Christopher Durang

“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.”

— Anonymous