Atheist Quotes

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, War, Death

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

Men, Done, Nation

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Cannot, Become, Wishing

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, Greater

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Care, Game, University

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

God, Loyal, Opposition

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell

God, Him, Dislike

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman

Become, Wanted, Once

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp

God, Woman, Said

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Her, She

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
Stephen Colbert

Agnostic, Balls

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler

God, Fight, Between

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

Live, Away, Ask

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, Preach, Atheism

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
Jodi Picoult

Spiritual, Feeling, Different

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Around, Few, Dangerous

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
Christopher Hitchens

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil

Love, Faith, God

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
James Buchan

Means, Support, Invisible

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strength, Mind, Heart

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
David Bowie

Life, Spiritual, Writing

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
Studs Terkel

Happen, Talking, Agnostic

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Christopher Hitchens

Christmas, Friends, Holiday

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
Jack Black

Life, Music, Spiritual

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
Anthony Hopkins

Religion, Nature, God

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
Brian Eno

Gospel, Belong, Choir

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno

Religion, Chance, Actually

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