Atheist Quotes

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

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

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

One hates what one fears.

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.