Atheist Quotes · Page 29

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

— Jim Gaffigan

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward…

— Albert Einstein

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted…

— William Butler Yeats

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have…

— Kirk Cameron

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in…

— Thomas Paine

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists…

— Jim Gaffigan

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like…

— C. S. Lewis

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image…

— Martin Buber

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time,…

— Jacques Maritain

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and…

— Chaz Bufe

The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he…

— Charles Bradlaugh

I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with.…

— Chris O'Dowd

“What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces; it…

— Luis Buñuel

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I…

— Sandra Cisneros

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not…

— Aldous Huxley

I was an atheist and I came to experience a relationship with God which had a radically transforming effect on my life,…

— Nicky Gumbel

I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also…

— Albert Einstein

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

— Anonymous

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

— Christopher Hitchens

Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.

— Jerry Falwell

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god…

— Richard Dawkins

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

— Susan B. Anthony

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

— Hemant Mehta

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

— Bertrand Russell

“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.”

— Sam Harris

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

— Andre Gide

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

— Michael Palin

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

— Christopher Hitchens

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

— Bill O'Reilly

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

— Erica Jong

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

— Taslima Nasrin

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind…

— Calvin Coolidge