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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816)
- Government
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allenborn 1935Stardust Memories (1980).
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Free Inquiry (Spring 1982)
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Sir Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), 16, “Of Atheism”.
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 Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography, p. 89
- Clever Jabs
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
How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn’t exist?
CBChris Bowyer
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
- Religion
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan1875–1940Often credited to Fulton J. Sheen
An atheist-laugh’s a poor exchange
For Deity offended!
Robert Burns1759–1796Epistle to a Young Friend, st. 9 (1786)
- God
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead