Atheist Quotes

• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
  • Reality
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Live
  • Free
  • Sunday

• I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Existence

• I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • God
  • Atheist
  • Supports

• It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Atheist
  • Hypocrite

• I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Simple
  • Comfort
  • Atheism

• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Atheist

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

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Atheist

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mystery
  • Agree
  • Corridors

• It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • World
  • Atheist
  • Russian

• If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Religious
  • Ireland
  • Militant

• Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

  

  Bill Gaede
  • Mathematics
  • Atheism
  • Mathematician

• I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Life
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • God
  • Believe
  • Nature

• No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Dangerous
  • Arrogant
  • Fundamentalist

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

  

  Matt Stone
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Believe
  • Belief
  • Evidence

• I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • Purpose
  • Religion
  • Audience

• We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.

  

  John Fleming
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Fall
  • Proud
  • Religion

• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • World
  • Kind
  • Atoms

• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Atheist
  • Hungry

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