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

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

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
George Carlin

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

Atheism is the last word of theism.
Heinrich Heine

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

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
Anne Hutchinson

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

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Leslie Stephen

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

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

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

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

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Vladimir Lenin

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

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

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

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

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

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.
Lord Kelvin