Atheist Quotes · Page 28

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

— Daniel Dennett

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

— Richard Dawkins

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

— Ayn Rand

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

— Baron d'Holbach

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

— Christopher Hitchens

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

— Ray Comfort

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

— John Fowles

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

— Sinclair Lewis

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you…

— Anna Julia Cooper

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with…

— Barbara Smoker

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming…

— Carl Sagan

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it…

— Richard Dawkins

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other…

— Timothy Radcliffe

The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the…

— David Bentley Hart

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in…

— Gillian Anderson

Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated…

— Roger Bacon

For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world,…

— Alan Lightman

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of…

— Sydney J. Harris

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they…

— Epicurus

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who…

— Anonymous

“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

“The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the…

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Peter Atkins

“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

— Abraham Lincoln

Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

— George Herbert

I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

— Ron Reagan

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

— Scott Dikkers

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

— Karen Chance

For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.

— Arnulf Øverland

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

— Anonymous

“You've finally hit a new low, you hypocrite — an atheist talking to God.”

— J.B. Wayne

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

— Marquis de Sade

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

— Aubrey Menen

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

— Alister E. McGrath

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

— Max Born