Atheist Quotes · Page 33

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

— Mark Twain

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

— Ernest Hemingway

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

— C. S. Lewis

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see

— Anonymous

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

— Mark Twain

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

— Tom Flynn

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass…

— Werner Heisenberg

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease…

— Hippocrates

“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and…

— George Orwell

“I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in…

— John Dewey

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living…

— John Lennon

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,…

— Quentin Crisp

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation…

— Anonymous

“Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe…

— Neil Gaiman

We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket…

— Glenn Beck

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific…

— Sam Harris

“Theism is a conclusion, so is atheism - none of these two conclusions is the product of serious investigation - one is…

— Abhijit Naskar

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I…

— Pete Seeger

“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the…

— Edward Royle

“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.…

— P.W. Atkins

Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional…

— Greg Koukl

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

— Rosamund Lupton

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

— John Updike

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

— Gad Saad

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

— Albert Einstein

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

— Joss Whedon

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.

— Margherita Hack

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

— Penn Jillette

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

— Peter Kreeft

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

— James Russell Lowell

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

— Andy Dick

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

— Voltaire

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

— Jerry Falwell

“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”

— Andrew Carnegie