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Quotes About Atheism

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
~ Baron d'Holbach
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
If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.
~ Ronald Knox
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel
I'm a born - again atheist.
~ Gore Vidal
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
~ Daniel Dennett
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
~ Richard Dawkins
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
~ Richard Dawkins
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
~ Albert Einstein
If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.
~ Hemant Mehta
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
~ Bertrand Russell
I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
~ Edmund Burke
There is zero evidence for god.
~ Lewis Wolpert
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
~ David Silverman
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
~ Orson Welles
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
~ George Coyne
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
~ Israel Zangwill
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
~ August Bebel
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
~ Virginia Woolf