Atheist Quotes · Page 31

“The absence of theistic belief... { Defining the word 'atheism' }”

— Joseph McCabe

I am only doing my part to piss off the pious religious folks.

— Anonymous

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

— Richard Dawkins

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

— George William Foote

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

— Plutarch

“Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.”

— R. Joseph Hoffmann

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

— David Hume

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what…

— Slavoj Žižek

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.…

— Carl Sagan

I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others.…

— Jack Germond

God: Hey, Rock! It's me, God! Rock: God? How do I know you're really God? God: I could tell you, but then…

— Rock Cowles

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

— Richard Dawkins

Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god…

— Dan Barker

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does…

— Roger Scruton

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is…

— Romain Rolland

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk…

— Natalie Angier

The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to…

— Ravi Zacharias

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest…

— Frank J. Tipler

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all…

— Misty Edwards

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…

— Thomas Paine

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's…

— Newt Gingrich

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...…

— Thomas Chalmers

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

— Pat Buckley

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

— Robert Browning

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

— Thomas Aquinas

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

— Marvin Olasky

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

— Anonymous

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

— Ann Coulter

Communist until you get rich, feminist until you get married, atheist until the airplane starts falling

— Juanda Brahma Metta

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

— Fallon Fox

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

— Giovanni Papini

“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.”

— Leslie Stephen

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of…

— Carl Sagan

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

— Lee Strobel

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

— Anonymous

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

— Nomy Arpaly

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

— Julian Baggini

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

— Ray Comfort