Atheist Quotes · Page 23

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be an atheist you must accept the impossible, believe the ridiculous, and trust the absurd.”

— Steve Kumar

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

— Jeff Vandermeer

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

— Ira Glass

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

— Julia Sweeney

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

— Jim Al-Khalili

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

— Peter Kreeft

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far…

— Anonymous

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden…

— Richard Dawkins

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by…

— Robert Southey

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy…

— Adam Carolla

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need…

— Carl Sagan

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated…

— Anonymous

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none…

— King David

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe…

— Anthony John Patrick Kenny

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove…

— C. JoyBell C

“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -…

— Jacob Applebaum

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality…

— Dr. Mawde Royden

I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The…

— Christopher Hitchens

One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they…

— Tim Crane

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life”

— M.F. Moonzajer

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

— John Hagee

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

— Antonio Machado

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

— Will Rogers

An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.

— Carl Sagan

I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

— Richard Pryor

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

— George Carlin

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

— Michael Buble

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

— Vanna Bonta

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

— Dean Cavanagh

“The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.”

— W.A.R. Gibb

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

— Emile Zola

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

— Charles Bradlaugh

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

— Isaac Asimov