Atheism Quotes

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
George Carlin

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

Religion, Men, Mind

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion, Real, Aspiration

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Strength, Mind, Shows

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison

Faith, Great, Atheist

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Vladimir Lenin

Propaganda, Program, Includes

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard Dawkins

Feeling, Personal, Evolution

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

God, Philosophy, Small

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

Love, Religion, Great

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
Daniel Radcliffe

Respect, Atheist, Preach

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana

Men, True, Human

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare

Mind, Cannot, Wings

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork

Religion, Science, Religious

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert

Between, Devil, Divides

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Liam Neeson

God, Reading, Books

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck

Religion, Wrong, Less

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Dennis Prager

Alone, Angry, Unhappy

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant

Religion, Good, Philosophy

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre

Great, Idea, Crime

Atheism is the last word of theism.
Heinrich Heine

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
Brad Pitt

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
Walter Kaufmann

God, Respect, Job

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
Mary Astell

Heart, Head, Seat

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

Idea, Memory, Took

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Matt Stone

Few, Atheist, Decades

The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'
Ray Comfort

Goal, Problem, Word

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.
Ray Comfort

Faith, Thought, Atheists

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.
Ray Comfort

Nothing, Everything, Words

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.
Ray Comfort

Afraid, Less, Found

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