Atheist Quotes · Page 25

There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

— Elias Canetti

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

— Annie Dillard

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

— Voltaire

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

— Albert Einstein

It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to…

— Hillary Clinton

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist…

— William Temple

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years…

— Moby

“You know the saying ‘there’s no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole?’ Well, there’s no such thing as a vegetarian…

— Steven Konkoly

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for…

— Penn Jillette

“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any…

— Abhijit Naskar

There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was…

— Christopher Hitchens

“They should be bundled like an atheist software package to reprogram minds into employing reason instead of faith, science instead of superstition.”

— Peter Boghossian

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not…

— Carl Sagan

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I…

— Corbin Bernsen

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that…

— Anonymous

“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,…

— Anne Rice

The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not…

— Pat Buchanan

“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows…

— Thomas Huxley

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

— Luke Jermay

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

— Bertrand Russell

“I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.”

— Nadine Gordimer

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

— Jacques Maritain

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

— Frank Zappa

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

— William Lane Craig

“ Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.”

— James A. Haught

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

— Henny Youngman

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

— Robert Collyer

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

— Anonymous

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

— Penn Jillette

“If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.”

— Hercules

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

— Michel de Montaigne