Atheist Quotes · Page 16

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

— Billy Graham

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

— Salman Rushdie

In the best atheist sense of the word, I feel blessed.

— Robert J. Sawyer

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

— Slavoj Žižek

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

— Mark Twain

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

— Bertrand Russell

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...

— Richard Dawkins

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

— Baron d'Holbach

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

— Lucretius

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too…

— Albert Einstein

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one…

— Thomas Jefferson

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in…

— William A. Dembski

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are…

— Randall Terry

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any…

— Ricky Gervais

A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be…

— Robert M. Pirsig

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well -…

— Paul Bloom

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere…

— Harun Yahya

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself…

— Michael Shermer

We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me.…

— John Shelby Spong

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or…

— Matt McCormick

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the…

— Diego Rivera

“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the…

— Frantz Fanon

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

— William Jennings Bryan

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

— Matthew Arnold

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

— Christopher Hitchens

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Practical atheism is when you act the same way as an atheist does even when you believe in God.

— Bill Johnson

“Atheism remains the only honest, rational and moral position to hold.”

— Al Stefanelli

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

— C. S. Lewis

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

— Jack Pritchard

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

— Tom Stoppard

A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.

— Matt Dillahunty