Atheist Quote by Alan Lightman

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

— Robert Todd Carroll

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

— Roy Hattersley

I think we atheists should tolerate the religious not because their views are just as valid as ours, but because experience has shown that…

— Tim Crane

However, we need to participate and manage skillfully, helpfully, and harmoniously, for a better world, family and society to be possible. So everybody's spiritual…

— Surya Das

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over…

— Dixie Carter

We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as…

— Maurice Blanchot

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with…

— Natalie Angier

I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this…

— Susan Jacoby

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

— Barack Obama

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is…

— Michael Novak

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

— Andrew Schneider

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very…

— Christopher Hitchens