Atheism Quotes · Page 48

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

— Anonymous

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

— William Cowper

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

— Daniel Dennett

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each…

— Andy Rooney

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

— John Updike

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

— Anonymous

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

— Clarence Darrow

An Atheist need Proof from God that he is God! lol yes they special! They want God to come down from were…

— Glen Rambharack

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede…

— John Adams

Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic…

— Amber Heard

“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he…

— Linus Pauling

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ…

— Gore Vidal

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth…

— Anne Nicol Gaylor

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as…

— Stephen Batchelor

To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for…

— Victor J. Stenger

“The term ‘atheist,’” Kirsch continued, “should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘nonastrologer’ or a ‘nonalchemist.’…

— Dan Brown

“Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God), it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of…

— N.D. Wilson

On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken…

— Charles Bradlaugh

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…

— Werner Gitt

The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being…

— Umberto Eco

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

— Gad Saad

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

— Peter Kreeft

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

— James Russell Lowell

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

— Dan Barker

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

— Albert Einstein

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and…

— Charles Chilton Moore

People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave.

— Anonymous

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

— Al Smith

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

— Jack Steinberger

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith.”

— Aron Ra

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

— Samuel Rutherford

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess…

— Francis Bacon

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

— Mark Thomas