Atheism Quotes

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
-Voltaire

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

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately."
-Scott Adams

"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
-G. K. Chesterton

"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."
-James Madison

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
-Woody Allen

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

"Atheist: A person who believes in one less god than you do."
-Donald Morgan

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

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-Richard Dawkins

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
-Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
-Denis Diderot

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."
-Heywood C. Broun

"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

"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

"I'm still an atheist, thank God."
-Luis Bunuel

"The atheist has no hope."
-James Freeman Clarke

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
-Richard Dawkins

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

"I’m the world’s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you’re not in love with."
-Lisa Williams

"The gospel of Christian atheism."
-John Robinson

"Atheism, the same than religion, can be cause of conviction or gregarism."
-Ezequiel D'leon Masis