Atheist Quotes - page 10

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. (Pat Buckley)
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will. View quote
Tom Metzger
The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God. View quote
William F. DeVault
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system. View quote
Winona Ryder
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be. View quote
Alain de Botton
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties. View quote
Thomas Paine
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention. View quote
Zach Braff
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
Although he never admitted himself to be an atheist as such, he was clearly and unarguably the most vividly elegant and eloquent skeptic of them all. I'm referring, of course, to the great Scottish philosopher David Hume. View quote
Jonathan Miller
To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist. (Simone Weil)
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. View quote
Simone Weil
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist. View quote
Simone Weil
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones. View quote
Paul Bloom
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist. View quote
Norman Finkelstein
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action. View quote
Alexander Pope
To err is human, whether we are religious, atheist, or agnostic. View quote
Newton Lee
I'm a born - again atheist. View quote
Gore Vidal
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Rousseau has said in his Emile (book iv.): "Even though philosophers should be in a position to discover the truth, which of them would take any interest in it? Each one knows well that his system is not better founded than the others, but he supports it because it is his. ...The essential thing is to think differently from others. With believers he is an atheist; with atheists he is a believer." View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Conduct, practice, is the proof of doctrine, theory. "If any man will do His will - the will of Him that sent me," said Jesus, "he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself" (John vii. 17); and there is a well known saying of Pascal: "Begin by taking holy water and you will end by becoming a believer." And pursuing a similar train of thought, Johann Jakob Moser, the pietist, was of the opinion that no atheist or naturalist had the right to regard the Christian religion as void of truth so long as he had not put it to the proof by keeping its precepts and commandments. (Miguel de Unamuno)
They're literally terrible human beings. I've read their newsletter, I've visited their website, and they're just rotten to the core. For an organization that prides itself on Christian values - I mean, I'm an atheist, so what do I know? View quote
Seth MacFarlane
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. View quote
Ian McEwan
As an atheist you have to rationalize things. . . . Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay. View quote
Billy Joel
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. View quote
Taslima Nasrin