Atheism Quote by David Hume

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent.…

— Epicurus

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose…

— Lucian

“If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either…

— Sam Harris

“God is willing to suffer to get what He wants; evil is not.”

— John Alan Turner

God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but…

— John Chrysostom

“The core problem seems to lie in the classical-philosophical equation of power with control, and thus omnipotence with omnicontrol, an equation that forces the…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent…

— Vasily Grossman

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

— Plato

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can…

— Epicurus

“Evil is the most difficult problem in the world. It is also the strongest objection to God’s existence. If God does exist, it is…

— Jon Morrison

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men have just…

— Cormac McCarthy