Atheist Quotes - Page 69

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.

We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.