Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Cassandra Clare

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Kirk Cameron

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

Kirk Cameron

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

Karl Marx

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Mary McCarthy

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

Mikhail Bakunin

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact....

Margot Kidder

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

Mikhail Bakunin

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Ivan Turgenev

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Gloria Steinem

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

J. Michael Straczynski

Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.

H. G. Wells

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.....

H. G. Wells

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

H. L. Mencken

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

H. L. Mencken

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

H. L. Mencken

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

H. L. Mencken

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

Oswald Chambers

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

Paul Ryan

I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

Pat Buchanan

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

Pat Buchanan

The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.

Joseph Simmons

Without God, life is everything.

Mitt Romney

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

R. C. Sproul

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

R. C. Sproul

The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

Mike Huckabee

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

Noam Chomsky

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Noam Chomsky

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Mike Patton

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.