Atheist Quotes · Page 21

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

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

— Edward Feser

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

— Keira Knightley

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

— Karen Chance

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

— Scott Dikkers

I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

— Ron Reagan

Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

— George Herbert

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

— Richard Dawkins

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,…

— Richard M. Rorty

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has…

— Sri Aurobindo

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

— John Ashcroft

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is…

— Norman Douglas

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -…

— Mark Twain

As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and…

— Robert Simonds

“Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether…

— George Bernard Shaw

I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually,…

— Alan Lightman

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit…

— Bill Maher

“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s…

— Jesse Ventura

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills…

— Carl Sagan

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not…

— Christopher Hitchens

Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose…

— Shelton Smith

I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was…

— Ricky Gervais

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

— Sinclair Lewis

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

— John Fowles

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

— Christopher Hitchens

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

— Ray Comfort

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

— Baron d'Holbach

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

— Ayn Rand

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

— Marquis de Sade

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

“You've finally hit a new low, you hypocrite — an atheist talking to God.”

— J.B. Wayne

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

— Anonymous

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.

— Arnulf Øverland

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

— Albert Einstein