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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. -- Joseph Addison
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. -- C. S. Lewis
I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.. -- Norman Geisler
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion -- David Hume
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. -- Benjamin Franklin
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself. -- Sri Aurobindo
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant. -- Wally Butts
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think, -- Ray Comfort
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. -- C. S. Lewis
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? -- Dan Barker
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. -- Charles Bradlaugh
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. -- C. S. Lewis
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God. -- Ernst Mayr
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. -- Neil Gaiman
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. -- Joseph McCabe
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan
Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization. -- William J. Murray
Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. -- John Adams
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc. -- David Pajo
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -- Susan B. Anthony
Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence. -- Paul Copan
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. -- Natalie Angier
The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,while the truth tells us we don't know. -- Kodai Okuda
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. -- Isaac Asimov
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish. -- Sara Sheridan
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. -- Sri Aurobindo
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. -- Robert Southey
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. -- John Donne
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. -- Thomas Jefferson
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels. -- Christine Jennings
When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will. -- Tom Metzger
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America. -- John F. Kerry
Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others. -- Chaz Bufe
The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate. -- Annie Besant
Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist. -- Peter Boghossian
An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist. -- Jim Herrick
"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion. -- Jim Herrick
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God. -- Richard Watson
I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me. -- Immortal Technique
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. -- Abraham Lincoln
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God. -- Thomas Jefferson
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again. -- Penn Jillette
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. -- Stephen Colbert
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls? -- Stephen Colbert
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. -- Jodie Foster
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. -- James Buchan
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion. -- Joss Whedon
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. -- Henny Youngman
I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. -- Richard Dawkins
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. -- George Orwell
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. -- Sam Harris
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it. -- William A. Dembski
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. -- Richard Dawkins
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. -- Richard Dawkins
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
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
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. -- Simon Hoggart
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. -- Francis Collins
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
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. -- Greg Graffin
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. -- Ravi Zacharias
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. -- George H. W. Bush
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. -- Marjane Satrapi
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. -- William A. Dembski
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. -- Penn Jillette
Everyday is an atheist holiday. -- Penn Jillette
Thank God I'm an atheist. -- Luis Bunuel
The atheist has no hope. -- James Freeman Clarke
I am a daylight atheist. -- Brendan Behan
No one ever dies an atheist..... -- Plato
I'm a born - again atheist. -- Gore Vidal
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. -- Brian Eno
An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. -- Studs Terkel
There are no atheist in foxholes..... -- William Thomas Cummings
I'm still an atheist, thank God. -- Luis Bunuel
Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist. -- Sarah Bernhardt
I rightly pass for an atheist. -- Jacques Derrida
No atheist says there is no god! -- Hemant Mehta
There is no bigot like the atheist. -- G.K. Chesterton
There is no bigot like the atheist. -- G.K. Chesterton
Every one starts out being an atheist. -- Andy Rooney
Thank God, I am still an atheist. -- Luis Bunuel
By night an atheist half-believes in God. -- Edward Young
My parents were secular. I am an atheist. -- Ben Elton
What does an atheist scream when they come? -- Bill Hicks
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. -- Julia Kristeva
I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all. -- Gary Kemp
An atheist is as religious as a theist. -- Kedar Joshi
Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist. -- Simon Conway Morris
Thank you God for making me an atheist. -- Ricky Gervais
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist? -- Bill Vaughan
I am an atheist, thanks be to God. -- Luis Bunuel
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. -- Jonathan Swift
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum. -- Sara Paretsky
But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose. -- Michael Newdow
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God -- Matthew Parris
Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. -- George Bernard Shaw
If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. -- Christian B. Anfinsen
By night an atheist half believes in a God. -- Edward Young
It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist. -- Joss Whedon

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