Atheist Quotes · Page 22

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

— Dale Ahlquist

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

— Martin Walser

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

— Bill Maher

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

— Anonymous

“They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.”

— A.B. Potts

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

— Hector Hugh Munro

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the…

— Clarence Darrow

“Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care…

— John Adams

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,…

— John Updike

Regardless of your belief, regardless of your religious affiliation, I don't care if you're an atheist, an agnostic, I don't care. We…

— Israel Houghton

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and…

— William Cowper

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would…

— Martin Amis

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not…

— Swami Vivekananda

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything…

— George Carlin

“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a…

— Richard Dawkins

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any…

— Ravi Zacharias

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

Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while…

— Karl Barth

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about…

— Greg Graffin

“But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's head. The orthodox…

— Julian Huxley

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican…

— Christopher Hitchens

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

— Carl Sagan

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

— Penn Jillette

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate…Try science.

— Carl Sagan

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

— Dorothy Day

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

— Paul Krassner

In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.

— Jethro Tull

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

— Ouida

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

— Natalie Dormer

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

— C. S. Lewis

“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”

— James Gavin

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

— Richard Dawkins

“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

— Gene Roddenberry

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

— Sam Harris

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

— John Stuart Mill