Top Atheist Quotes
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
Marvin Olasky 
Studs Terkel 
Woody Allen 
Simone Weil 
Henny Youngman 
C. S. Lewis 
Quentin Crisp 
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I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon 
78% of people like this quote
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
71% of people like this quote
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
69% of people like this quote
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
60% of people like this quote
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere
59% of people like this quote
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
59% of people like this quote
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
57% of people like this quote
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
57% of people like this quote
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
56% of people like this quote
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