Quotes for Atheism

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.

Michael Leunig

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

I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

Penn Jillette

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Heinrich Heine

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A. A. Milne

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

Parker Palmer

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Annie Besant

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

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

Kirk Cameron

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

Joseph de Maistre

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Israel Zangwill

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Augustus Hare

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

Joseph Addison

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Robert Bork

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

Penn Jillette

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Vanna Bonta

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Steven Pinker