Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Randi

The market for nonsense is infinite.

Laurence Sterne

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

Jon Krakauer

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

Luis Bunuel

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Luis Bunuel

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

Luis Bunuel

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Luis Bunuel

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

James Clavell

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

James Cook

Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.

Jacques Maritain

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

Hemant Mehta

Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.

Hemant Mehta

No atheist says there is no god!

Hemant Mehta

We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there!

Mahatma Gandhi

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

Eric Hoffer

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Louis Nizer

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Lord Byron

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Gloria Steinem

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

J. Michael Straczynski

Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

H. L. Mencken

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

H. L. Mencken

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

H. L. Mencken

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

H. L. Mencken

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

H. P. Lovecraft

All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

Michael Palin

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

Ravi Zacharias

In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.

Ravi Zacharias

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Ravi Zacharias

The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.

Ravi Zacharias

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Ravi Zacharias

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.