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To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled — that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 137
- Faith
The atheist who affects to reason, and the fanatic who rejects reason, plunge themselves alike into inextricable difficulties.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Religion
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30
- Children
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
- Anti-Religion
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know.”
Penn Jilletteborn 1955God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011), p. xiii
An atheist-laugh’s a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
Robert Burns1759–1796Epistle to a Young Friend, st. 9 (1786)
- God
Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead (1922)
- Faith
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Free Inquiry (Spring 1982)
Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Anti-Religion
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedonborn 1964“Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist”, comments made in a Q&A-session in Australia, while promoting his movie Serenity (2005)
- Morality
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), pp. 33–34
- God
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
- Morality
If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake. Well, the talking snake was his first mistake.
Ricky Gervaisborn 1961“Inside the Actors Studio,” 2009
- Comedy
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 14:1 (KJV)In context
- God