Atheist Quotes · Page 30

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

— Al Gore

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

— Sigmund Freud

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

— Robert Todd Carroll

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

— Barack Obama

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

— Malcolm X

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

— Pope John Paul II

Why is it that good people suffer? Oh I forgot, it is God's will!

— Anonymous

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

— Mike Birbiglia

Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice.…

— Greta Christina

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is…

— Bill Vaughan

If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that…

— Rodrigo Cortes

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

— Andy Rooney

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this…

— George H. Smith

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery,…

— Oprah Winfrey

Let me get this straight...Atheists don't believe in God because they can't see God. I've never seen a million dollars, but I…

— Nishan Panwar

“Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.”

— William Branks

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

“Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Christian, you are that because of where and when you were born. If you are an atheist, you…

— Frank Schaeffer

I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or…

— Richard Wurmbrand

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits…

— Antonin Scalia

“In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot , often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not…

— Robert K. Wilcox

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they…

— Joseph Campbell

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are…

— Ed Asner

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

— Kurt Vonnegut

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you…

— Sean Faircloth

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Control your own destiny or someone else in the name of God will.

— Anonymous

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Putting atheism up as a legitimate parallel to religion takes mental gymnastics of Olympian proportions.”

— Al Stefanelli

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

— Charles Colson

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

— Alasdair MacIntyre

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

— Israel Zangwill

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

— Carl Sagan

Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.

— Kim Kardashian

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson