Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Michael Newdow

because I am an atheist and this offends me.

Pat Buchanan

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

Pat Buchanan

The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.

Joseph Simmons

Without God, life is everything.

Mikhail Bakunin

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

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

Margot Kidder

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

Mikhail Bakunin

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Mitt Romney

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

R. C. Sproul

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

R. C. Sproul

The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

Mike Huckabee

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

Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Noam Chomsky

...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.

Mike Patton

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

John Ashcroft

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Kingsley Amis

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Oprah Winfrey

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Lucretius

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Michael Crichton

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Melissa Auf der Maur

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Mark Twain

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

Mark Twain

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

Mark Twain

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Mark Twain

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Mark Twain

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Marquis de Sade

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Mark Fuhrman

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.