Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
—Anonymous
The atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation—a contemner of God who explodes his laws by denying his existence.
—John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-Up Comedian
And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning).
—The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam
I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
—George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American Republican Statesman, 41st President
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can’t see.
—Unknown
The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose
—Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American Civil Liberties Lawyer
Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame—Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.
—William Temple (1881–1944) English Theologian, Archbishop
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgment of a divine power.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
—Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
—Orson Welles (1915–85) American Film Director, Actor
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism—at least in the sense of this work—is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
—Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–72) German Materialist Philosopher
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
—Richard Dawkins (b.1941) British Evolutionary Biologist, Atheist
The atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence
—Unknown
What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian Lyric Poet, Novelist, Translator
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-Up Comedian
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support
—Unknown
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, make atheists of mankind.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Atheism, if it exists, is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living.—It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.
—Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) Anglican Church Historian, Clergyman
Faith, and belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
—George Orwell (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
—Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916) British Short Story Writer, Satirist, Historian
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American Head of State
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