Atheist Quotes
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Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi Zacharias
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
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Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
Ernst Mayr
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Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
George William Foote
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
Josh Charles
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How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.
Bobcat Goldthwait
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Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
Dan Barker
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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
Jonathan Swift
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Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
Dan Barker
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I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
George R. R. Martin
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber
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As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Francis Collins
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
Lois McMaster
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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
Nomy Arpaly
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
Dan Barker