Atheist Quotes · Page 18

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

— George Carlin

“I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.”

— Nadine Gordimer

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

— Bertrand Russell

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

— Luke Jermay

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

— Albert Einstein

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

— George Bernard Shaw

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

— Voltaire

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into…

— Anonymous

If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest…

— Matt Haig

“I am an atheist and a brony, only respond if you can appreciate subtle intricacies of my mind. I expect dates to…

— Anonymous

Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We…

— Patricia Churchland

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

— Sigmund Freud

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is…

— Bruce Robinson

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism…

— Martin Buber

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell.…

— Clarence Darrow

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…

— Carl Sagan

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself…

— John Adams

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying…

— Stephen Levine

“Rossetti makes the remark somewhere, bitterly but with great truth, that the worst moment for the atheist is when he is really…

— G.K. Chesterton

Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size…

— Paul Blanshard

To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like…

— Umberto Eco

Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

— Annie Dillard

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

— Anonymous

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

— Robert Collyer

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

— Henny Youngman

“ Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.”

— James A. Haught

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

— Frank Zappa

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

— William Lane Craig

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

— Jacques Maritain

Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.

— Paul Carvel

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

— Anonymous

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

— George Orwell