Atheist Quotes · Page 29

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

— Taslima Nasrin

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

— Penn Jillette

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

— Albert Einstein

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

— Penn Jillette

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

— Carl Sagan

There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

— Frank Turek

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

— Thomas Gray

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could…

— Jimmy Swaggart

My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and…

— Elif Batuman

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense…

— Rachel Griffiths

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual…

— Chloe Benjamin

I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who…

— Jesse Ventura

“Agnostics reserve judgment until they can see proof of God’s existence or nonexistence. Atheists believe there’s no God.”

— Alix Nichols

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of…

— Stephen Fry

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the…

— Andy Rooney

The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“By normal standards, Jesus' modus operandi was virtually an atheistic modus operandi, so that he could live through the irony of atheism,…

— William Dean

If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you…

— Massimo Pigliucci

No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed,…

— Terry Pratchett

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,…

— Baron d'Holbach

“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,…

— J.B.S. Haldane

I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me…

— Paula Poundstone

“[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted)…

— Nicolas Walter

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

— Keira Knightley

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

— Edward Feser

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

— Mike Patton

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

— Hannah More

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

— Sam Harris

“Defining atheism as a religion is embellishment and bad philosophy.”

— Al Stefanelli

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

— Peter O'Toole

That awkward moment when you name your child 'Christian' only for him to grow up to be an atheist.

— Anonymous

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

— Franklin P Jones

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

— Sam Harris

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

— George R. R. Martin