Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bradlaugh

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Bill Maher

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Kurt Vonnegut

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Werner Heisenberg

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Bill Maher

There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.

Bill Maher

I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I say I don't know. And if you don't know - and you don't - just man up and say you don't know. Don't turn to silly stories and ancient myths.

Benjamin Whichcote

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

Charlton Heston

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away.

Bill O'Reilly

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

Bill O'Reilly

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

Bill Murray

Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.

Bertrand Russell

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

Bernard Katz

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Carlos Fuentes

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

C. S. Lewis

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Lynn Coady

I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure.

Douglas Wilson

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Dorothy Day

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dalai Lama

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

J. D. Salinger

I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

Jack Germond

I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

Isaac Newton

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

Hannah More

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Greg Graffin

As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

Greg Graffin

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.

Stephen Jay Gould

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Stephen Jay Gould

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists

There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything and anything you can think of.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.