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Quotes About Atheism

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.
~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.
~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
I'm too much of a coward to be an atheist," I said. "I couldn't bear not to believe in anything. I have to believe there's God
~ Susan Howatch
I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
~ Tariq Ali
As Americans, we have marched a long way down the soul-destroying road of socialism, atheism, and totalitarianism. It is the price we pay when we turn away from God and turn to government to do everything for us. It is the formula by which nations become enslaved by their own leaders.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
En vez de entrar en las tiendas, prefiere sentarse en la iglesia y practicar su ateísmo silencioso.
~ Fernando Aramburu
Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea.
~ Fernando Vallejo
No, from what you say your father was an atheist, an out-and-out unbeliever. Atheism will see your head spiked on a church spire just as soon as Birdcatchery." Mosca was silent for a few moments. "But, Mr. Clent," she said at last, "what if he was right? What if it's true?
~ Frances Hardinge
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
~ Billy Graham
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay
~ Billy Joel
It is not at all uncommon, even among ourselves, to hear persons and parties branded as atheistical, only because individuals who so stigmatize them have not been able, and perhaps are not in the least willing, to appreciate the sort of theism which they profess.
~ blackie john stuart ii
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
~ Blaise Pascal
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
~ A. A. Milne
In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.
~ Isabella Bird
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The only atheism is the denial of truth.
~ Arthur Lynch
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
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
~ James Russell Lowell
Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.
~ Auliq Ice
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.
~ Ricky Gervais
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.
~ Simone Weil