Quotes of: Atheists Keyword

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffer

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Joseph McCabe

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

juanda brahma metta

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Daniel Radcliffe

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Jimmy Swaggart

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.

Alejandro Amenabar

Isabelle rolled her eyes. "Oh, for the Angel's sake. Look, if there's no other way of getting out of this, I'll kiss Simon. I've done it before, it wasn't that bad." "Thanks," said Simon. "That's very flattering." "Well, I'm not kissing the mundane,"...

City of Ashes

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help. When...

An Atheist Manifesto

Pastor Ted and other evangelical pastors I hear about in the media seem to perceive just about everything to be a threat against Christianity. Evolution is a threat. Gay marriage is a threat. A swear word uttered accidentally on television is a threa...

I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going f...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnosti...

Life of Pi

[Über das Paradies:] Die fünf Bücher Mose, die Genesis und der Koran beschäftigen sich eingehend mit dieser hysterischen Geographie. Die muslimische Variante ist jedoch am gelungensten und lohnt wirklich die Lektüre: Bäche, Gärten, Flüsse, Qu...

Wir brauchen keinen Gott. Warum man jetzt Atheist sein muß

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Bird of Paradise

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.

A Schizophrenic Will: A Story of Madness, A Story of Hope

The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

The Politics Of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing And Art

He said he thinks he’s God, and I said, In that case, I’m an atheist.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Hemant Mehta

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Plutarch