Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gurnall

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Voltaire

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Voltaire

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Voltaire

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Voltaire

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

Voltaire

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Voltaire

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

William Butler Yeats

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Sarah Bernhardt

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Warren Mitchell

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Ronald Reagan

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Saint Augustine

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Will Rogers

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

Will Rogers

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Yuri Gagarin

I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space.

W. Somerset Maugham

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

W. Somerset Maugham

I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.