Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Claiborne

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Seth MacFarlane

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

Lucretius

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Michael Crichton

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Melissa Auf der Maur

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Michael Ruse

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

Michael Novak

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Michael Newdow

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

Mark Twain

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Marilyn Manson

Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

Marilyn Manson

One hates what one fears.

Marilyn Manson

If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots

Marilyn Manson

I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.

Michael Buble

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

Michel Onfray

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.

Michel Onfray

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

Mignon McLaughlin

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

Neil Gaiman

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.

Theodore Parker

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Marcus Brigstocke

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

Michael Palin

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Ravi Zacharias

I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Ravi Zacharias

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

Ravi Zacharias

The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.

Slavoj Zizek

Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.

Slavoj Zizek

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

Sinclair Lewis

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

Rajneesh

It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.