Atheist Quotes

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

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

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.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I am a daylight atheist.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

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.

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 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.

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

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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.

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.

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

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.