Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Thompson

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

Emma Goldman

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Emma Goldman

I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

Emma Goldman

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

Emma Goldman

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...

Jodie Foster

I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'

Jodie Foster

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

George MacDonald

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

George MacDonald

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

John Burroughs

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

Leo Tolstoy

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

Lee Strobel

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

You are all stardust.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Ludwig Feuerbach

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Ludwig Feuerbach

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Man created God in his own image.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Malcolm de Chazal

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

Mahatma Gandhi

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Norman Geisler

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist..

Orlando Aloysius Battista

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....

Oriana Fallaci

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Orhan Pamuk

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Orhan Pamuk

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Omar Khayyam

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

Emile Zola

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Epicurus

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?