Atheists Quotes

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. - William Jennings Bryan

The most disturbing thing is the resolution asks Missouri legislators whether or not they believe in God. Not all legislators are practicing Christians, there are some Jews and, although you won't hear about it during election time, probably a few atheists. We need to be very vigilant before we wake up one day and ask what happened to our democracy. This is not a theocracy. - Brett Shirk

The First Amendment commands government to have no interest in theology or ritual; it admonishes the government to be interested in allowing religious freedom to flourish -- whether the result is to produce Catholics, Jews, or Protestants, or to turn the people toward the path of Buddha, or to end in a predominantly Moslem nation, or to produce in the long run atheists or agnostics. On matters of this kind, government must remain neutral. This freedom plainly includes freedom from religion with the right to believe, speak, write, publish and advocate antireligious programs. - William Orville Douglas

The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev. - Voltaire

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. - Rick Warren

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. - Ralph Cudworth

Some are atheists only in fair weather. - Thomas Fuller

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. - Hu Shih

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. - John Ashcroft