Atheist Quotes

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

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.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.