Atheist Quotes

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

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

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.