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Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ. — William Temple

An atheist is as religious as a theist. — Kedar Joshi

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. — H.P. Lovecraft

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic. — Henry Ian Cusick

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork. — Khaled Hosseini

If you don't like my poetry and quotes and your a Christian forgive me if you're an Atheist ignore me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. — Michael Vito Tosto

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. — Richard Dawkins

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people. — Max Born

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one. — Francis Joseph Sheed

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God. — Sonya Sones

Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker — Morrissey

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. — William Gurnall

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons. — Flannery O'Connor

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God. — Primo Levi

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. — C.S. Lewis

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition. — Trevor Treharne

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights. — Taslima Nasrin

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan. — George Carlin

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life. — Albert Einstein

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. — Honore De Balzac

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling. — Juanda Brahma Metta

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ... — John Lennon

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway. — Ricky Gervais

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not. — Michael Gerson

COMPASSION

The religion of atheists — Kamil Ali

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe. — Simone De Beauvoir

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

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion. — Dalai Lama

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion — David Hume

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence. — Robert Buettner

I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. — Dan Fouts

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist. — Rick Warren

You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator. — Toni Sorenson

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God. — Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. — Thomas A. Edison

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist. — Alexandre Dumas

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist — Bill O'Reilly

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

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder. — A.C. Grayling

An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God,
That would be quite an unsettling thought. — Anonymous

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. — Laurence Sterne

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist. — John Lennox

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist. — Stefan Molyneux

Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. — John Adams

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere. — John E. Jones III

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. — William Butler Yeats

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet. — Charles Bradlaugh

Theists and atheists are equally religious. — Kedar Joshi

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. — Edward Abbey

When an atheist is born, a kitten kills a god. — C.P. McClennan

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. — Sigmund Freud

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity! MMI — Mehmet Murat Ildan

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ... — Orlando Aloysius Battista

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out. — Bertrand Russell

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. — Brian Eno

Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian. — James E. Crimmins

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. — A. N. Wilson

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. — Bill Murray

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft

God doesn't send atheists to Hell
there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out. — Ira Glass

One hates what one fears. — Marilyn Manson

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed. — Jacques Berlinerblau

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am. — Bobcat Goldthwait

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God. — Ruth Graham

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. — Mark Twain

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

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years. — S.T. Joshi

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. — Tariq Ali

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there! — Hemant Mehta

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred. — Philip Zaleski

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy — Austin O'Malley

People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist. — M.F. Moonzajer

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists. — David Silverman

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? — Dan Barker

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

God is the absolute truth — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. — Peter Atkins

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists. — Mike Birbiglia

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief. — Dan Barker

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist? — Ricky Gervais

My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me. — Francois Cavanna

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists]. — John Lennox