Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of…

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.

— David Silverman

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I…

— David Silverman

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty…

— Herbert Hoover

“the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods…

— Terry Pratchett

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups

— Clark Coleman

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of…

— Robert Barron

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said…

— John Irving

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

— Emma Goldman

We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there!

— Hemant Mehta

I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in…

— Richard Carrier

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

— Ricky Gervais

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

— Noam Chomsky