Atheist Quotes · Page 35

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

“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

“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to…

— Kathy Griffin

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the…

— Carl Sagan

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we…

— Rabih Alameddine

Religion: A friend of a friend's brother's ex-girlfriend's dad's former classmate's boss's mother-in-law's co-worker's milkman's pen pal's, medicine man's babysitter's dog said...…

— Rock Cowles

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin'…

— Jim Jefferies

Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god,…

— Richard Watson

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're…

— Ricky Gervais

“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 is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud.…

— Anonymous

There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of…

— Pat Robertson

Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming…

— Carman

Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God…

— Dave Foley

One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It…

— Karl Rove

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The God to whom I was introduced as a child was basically a Jewish one: male, fatherly, Anglo-European, bearded, angrily loving, judgmental,…

— Carlton D. Pearson

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Al Stefanelli

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

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

“An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:”

— David Bentley Hart

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of…

— J. J. C. Smart

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the…

— Seth MacFarlane

“An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred…

— Abhijit Naskar

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

— Anonymous

“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think this word 'disbelieve' would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category…

— Immortal Technique

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at…

— Lee Kuan Yew

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia,…

— Simon Hoggart