An atheist is a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist because there is no (scientific) evidence for them.
In contrast, the word agnostic refers to a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in a god or religious doctrine. Agnostics assert that it’s impossible to know how the universe was created and whether or not divine beings exist.
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But the belief in God and religon is based on pure faith and not logic. The debate between theist and atheist have come a long way and we have some people who do not support the concept of God and religon while some others are for it.
Believers Vs. Non believers will always be the debate that will go on forever. Some people need logical answers for everything. Atheist do not believe in the supernatural because of tradition. They have questions and need scientific proof and evidence to believe in things.
These popular quotes about atheists by amazing celebrities, scientists, philosophers, and leaders will give you a different perspective to faith, religion, God, and prayers, anti-religion and more.
Top 10 Atheist Quotes For Non-Believers
- “To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition.” – Woody Allen
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“It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.” – George Harrison
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“I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.” – Mikhail Gorbachev
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“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” – C. S. Lewis
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“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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“As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.” – Sam Harris
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“I don’t mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn’t tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.” – Greg Graffin
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” – Thomas Paine
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“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
Best Quotes About Atheists
- “All thinking men are atheists.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.” – Epicurus
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“I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.” – Douglas Adams
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
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“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” – Isaac Asimov
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“I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.” – Dan Barker
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“Being an atheist has made me an active participant in my life, rather than a bleating victim of it…” – B Moody
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“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.” – Richard K Morgan
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“The true atheist will stay silent. To give a thiest someone to debate is to harbor his delusion further.” – Charles Darwin
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“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men. I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free.” –Charles Darwin
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“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?” – Christopher Hitchens
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“And if there were God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.” – Bertrand Russell
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“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“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 Edison
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“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.” ― Aldous Huxley
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“An atheist doesn’t have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can’t be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.” ― John Mccarthy
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“I’m an atheist… I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It’s not enough to say that I don’t believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Quran, and I refute them.” ― Emma Thompson
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“Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing ‘Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!’ If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.” – Dan Barker
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“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” – Stephen Hawking
Atheism Quotes And Sayings
Most famous atheists aren’t famous for their beliefs… or lack of belief in one thing or another; their significant accomplishments are what make them stand out in history.
Sigmund Freud, Stephen Hawking, Andrei Sakharov, Woody Allen, Richard Dawkins, Benjamin Franklin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Wright are some of the famous rationalist and athesit of the world.
- “Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens
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“Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.” — Austin O’Malley
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“Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.” — C. S. Lewis
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“She believed in nothing. Only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens
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“A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.” — Jean De La Bruyere
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“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn’t exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.” – Scott Dikkers
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“Imagine that the brain is a computer and that religion is a virus. Atheism is the wiping of that virus.” ― Nick Harding
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“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.” – Emile Zola
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“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” ― St. Thomas Aquinas
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“I die as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.” – Voltairine de Cleyre
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“If this is not atheism, to acknowledge no other deity besides dead and senseless matter, then the word has no significance.” — Ralph Cudworth
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“It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.” ― Steve Allen
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.” – C.S. Lewis
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“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.” ― Ricky Gervais
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“Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it deprived human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.” — Francis Bacon
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“We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.” – Sam Harris
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“I am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have.” – Isaac Asimov
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“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism — that’s the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“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
Famous Atheist Quotes On God
- “I don’t want to believe. I want to know.” – Carl Sagan
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“Belief is the death of intelligence.” – Robert Anton Wilson
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“If there were not God, there would be no atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton
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“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?” – Chuck Palahniuk
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“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” – Mikhail Bakunin
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“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
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“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.” – Edmond de Goncourt
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“If it turns out there is a God… the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.” – Woody Allen
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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” – Albert Einstein
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“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.” ― Haruki Murakami
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“Atheist because God sending himself to sacrifice himself to save us from himself is a little bit much for any logical person.” – Unknown
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has every believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” – Richard Dawkins
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“Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood or believing in God.” – Scott Dikkers
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use.” –
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“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing-all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames then for his own mistakes.” – Gene Roddenberry
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“I studied every page of this book, and I didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.” ― Ruth Hurmence Green
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“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.” ― George Santayana
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“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.” – Bill Hicks
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“Though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.” ― Christopher Hitchens
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“I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.” – Isaac Asimov
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“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.” ― Albert Einstein
Inspirational Atheist Quotes On Religion
- “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” – Christopher Hitchens
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“The theory that religion is a force for peace, does not fit the fact of its history.” – Steven Pinker
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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” – Lord Byron
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” – Richard Dawkins
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“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.” – Kane
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“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” – Aleister Crowley
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“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.” – Mark Twain
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“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.” ― Al-Maʿarri
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“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.” ― Tim Minchin
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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a religion.” – Robert M. Pirsig
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“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.” – Seven Weinberg
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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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“I don’t profess any religion; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.’” – Philip Pullman
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“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.” ― George Carlin
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“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason.” – Christopher Hitchens
Funny Atheist Quotes
- “Atheism is a non-prophet organization.” – George Carlin
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“By night an atheist half believes in God.” — Edward Young
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“Agnostics are just atheists without balls.” – Stephen Colbert
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“I have no need for religion; I have a conscience.” — Unknown
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“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.” – George Bernard Shaw
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“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.” — Ronald Knox
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“You talked about hell as if you’re born and raised there.” – Mark Gungor
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“All children are atheists; they have no idea of God.” ― Paul-Henri Holbach
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“A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.” — Honore De Balzac
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“If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion.” – Unknown
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“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” – Henny Youngman
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“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” – Movie: “House”
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“Being considered strange because you don’t believe in a magic man living in the sky.” – Unknown
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” – Richard Dawkins
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“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.” – Unknown
Read on to find these encouraging words of wisdom that will motivate you to keep being positive and see difference between reason and faith.
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