Atheist Quotes · Page 18

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

— Isaac Newton

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart…

— H. G. Wells

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

— Jesse Ventura

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

— Hannah More

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

— Peter Kreeft

“Fear and confession for the fear of unknown,business mind to fulfill greeds and unsatisfaction, limited knowledge makes the religion”

— er.teji

“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether…

— Abhijit Naskar

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this…

— Frei Betto

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is…

— Thomas Paine

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

“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life…

— Stephen Law

I don't believe is a statement for me, not a stand. Ignosticism reminds me how much I don't know. It doesn't mean…

— Rock Cowles

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required…

— Ludwig von Mises

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand…

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Thomas Chalmers

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us…

— Christopher Hitchens

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God,…

— Stephen Prothero

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Defining atheism as a religion is embellishment and bad philosophy.”

— Al Stefanelli

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

— Sam Harris

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

— Mike Patton

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

— George R. R. Martin

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

— Francis Joseph Sheed

That awkward moment when you name your child 'Christian' only for him to grow up to be an atheist.

— Anonymous

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

— Peter O'Toole

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

— Franklin P Jones

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

— Sam Harris

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

— H. L. Mencken

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

— Johannes Kepler

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

— Mary Astell

“ Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists.”

— Tariq Ali

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

— Bertrand Russell