Atheist Quotes · Page 28

It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God

— Tom Stoppard

“You’ve lost faith in yourself? Isn’t that rich? A god who’s become a self-atheist!”

— Orson Scott Card

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

— Trevor Treharne

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

— Daniel Dennett

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

— Javed Akhtar

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

— Thomas Jefferson

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to…

— Richard Dawkins

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

— Richard Dawkins

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's…

— Steve Buscemi

I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a…

— Pat Robertson

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though…

— Gore Vidal

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

— Will Rogers

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…

— C. S. Lewis

(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…

— Carl Sagan

The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force…

— Nick Yee

When I was an atheist I hated people, especially people that talked about God. I thought that they were naive. It wasn't…

— Lacey Sturm

“In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most…

— J.D. Salinger

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older…

— Tony Benn

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had…

— Charles Spurgeon

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at…

— Leo Tolstoy

“atheism, as any rational human being may come to understand it, is not a logically coherent position, but has only been made…

— Bō Jinn

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.”

— Anonymous

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

— Christopher Durang

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

— Terry Pratchett

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

— Dan Barker

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

— Bill Maher

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think,

— Ray Comfort

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

— Mark Twain

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

— Hu Shih

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

— Cormac McCarthy

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

— Greg Graffin

“I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.”

— Carl Sagan

“Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

— Anonymous

An atheist is a guy who watches a N�tre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins

— Dwight David Eisenhower

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

— Kurt Vonnegut