Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

George R. R. Martin

You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn’t the end and there’s something more, but I can’t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

George Carlin

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

George Carlin

I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails.

George Carlin

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

George Carlin

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

George Carlin

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

George Carlin

When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

George Carlin

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

George Carlin

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Gene Weingarten

I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

Gene Roddenberry

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

Gene Roddenberry

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Gene Roddenberry

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

Frederick Buechner

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

Frederick Buechner

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

Francis Collins

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

Francis Collins

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

Francis Crick

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Francis Bacon

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

Francis Bacon

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Francis Bacon

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Francis Bacon

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Thanks to God, I am still an atheist

Flannery O'Connor

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Henny Youngman

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist

Mike Pence

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.