A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
Pat Buckley

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

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

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

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Robert Jay Lifton

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

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Francis Thompson

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

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

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

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.
Michael Newdow

By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Edward Young

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

I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan

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 am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon

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.
Michael Newdow

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
Warren Mitchell

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Marvin Olasky

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
Dixie Carter