Atheism Quotes

Ah, there’s no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I’m a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

I’m a polyatheist – there are many gods I don’t believe in.

We have no falsehoods to defend We want the facts; Our force, our thought, we do not spend In vain attacks. And we will never meanly try To save some fair and pleasing lie. The simple truth is what we ask, Not the ideal; We’ve set ourselves the noble task To find the real. If […]

There are no atheists in the foxholes. (at Bataan, 1942)

Atheism is unknown there; infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country, without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. (1782 pamphlet “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America.”)

If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we […]

It is only the athiest who adopts success as the criterion of right.

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unbeliever.

The atheist, for his part, does not necessarily offer an explanation; he simply does not accept the theist’s explanation. Therefore, the atheist need only demonstrate that the theist has failed to justify his position.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.