Atheist Quotes

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.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

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

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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.

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.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

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.

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 Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.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, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

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

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.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

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

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.

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

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 consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

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