Quotes About Atheism

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism, or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?

To the best-selling atheists of our time, who have lumped us all together into one ridiculous religious cartoon and then proudly announce that they don't believe in the God that most of us don't believe in either, I say, for the love of God … RESIST!

In view of the semen religionis implanted in every man by his creation in the image of God, it is safe to assume that no one is born an atheist. In the last analysis atheism results from the perverted moral state of man and from his desire to escape from God. It is deliberately blind to and suppresses the most fundamental instinct of man, the deepest needs of the soul, the highest aspirations of the human spirit, and the longings of a heart that gropes after some higher Being.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.

atheists are the most reviled minority in the United States. Polls indicate that being an atheist is a perfect impediment to running for high office in our country (while being black, Muslim, or homosexual is not).

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, atheism is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a non-astrologer or a non-alchemist.

An atheist is a person who believes that the murder of a single little girl—even once in a million years—casts doubt upon the idea of a benevolent God.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

When it snows, that's just God's way of still not existing.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

They both professed to be atheists, but, judging by their conduct, they exhibited in their daily lives all those attributes which are fundamental to real, active Christianity. They were thoughtful for my comfort in every way, and shared many of my interests and pursuits with a zest which might well have been envied by much younger people. Together we went down to Torquay for a two-week holiday and returned to Brentwood completely refreshed.

No atheism simply falls from heaven.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We