Atheist Quote by Margherita Hack

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.

— Margherita Hack

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things…

— Ricky Gervais

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

— Penn Jillette

At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is…

— Eric Liu

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

— Roy Hattersley

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

— John Fowles

In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I rightly pass for an atheist.

— Jacques Derrida

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and…

— Tariq Ramadan

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

— Richard Dawkins

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

— Michael Gerson

“Notice how atheists who believe in real right and wrong make a massive intellectual leap of faith. They believe that somehow moral facts were…

— Paul Copan