Atheist Quotes
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Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
Rabia Basri -
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
Danny Boyle
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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 Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Cliff Stearns -
I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
Pat Buckley -
If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
Penn Jillette -
My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.
Elif Batuman -
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
Jeff Vandermeer -
I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
Edmund White -
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.
Kirk Cameron -
Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
Carl Reiner -
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
Albert Einstein
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
Luis Bunuel -
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
Alex Clare -
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.
S. T. Joshi -
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.
Alex Garland -
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
David Chalmers
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Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
E. Haldeman-Julius -
As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.
Mark Frauenfelder -
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
H. P. Lovecraft -
On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
Laurence J. Peter