Atheist Quotes

1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser
I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people, — Ani DiFranco
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. — Daniel Radcliffe
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control… — S. T. Joshi
There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. — Andy Dick
Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because… — Greta Christina
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one… — Edward Abbey
It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have… — Julian Barnes
I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.… — Paul Ryan
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god — Thom Yorke
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even… — Malcolm X
I'm still an atheist, thank God. — Luis Bunuel
Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. — Swami Vivekananda
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became… — Whitley Strieber
I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist,… — Lacey Mosley
I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of… — Gary Bauer
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. — Jerry Falwell
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I… — Penn Jillette
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy — Austin O'Malley
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. — Plato
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune. — Plato
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined… — Dave Hunt

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