Atheist Quotes · Page 22

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— John E. Jones III

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

— Ron Currie Jr

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

— Don Henley

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

— Rick Warren

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

— Richard Dawkins

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered…

— David Chalmers

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

— Simone Weil

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in…

— Lisa Williams

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or…

— Anthony Hopkins

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my…

— Michael Newdow

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it…

— Sigmund Freud

If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i…

— Marilyn Manson

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss…

— Rob Bell

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to…

— John Shelby Spong

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.…

— Jean Meslier

When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm.…

— Pat Robertson

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of…

— Albert Einstein

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened…

— Alain de Botton

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality…

— Nigella Lawson

“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that…

— Isaac Asimov

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

— Paul Krugman

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

— Albert Einstein

The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.

— Lee Strobel

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

— William Temple

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

— Anonymous

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

— Albert Einstein

“There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths”

— Munia Khan

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

— Austin O'Malley

“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.”

— P.W. Atkins

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

— Samuel Butler

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

— Simon Hoggart

Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.

— Dan Barker

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

— Alvin Holmes

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

— Bill Maher

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

— W. Kamau Bell