Hugo Black Quotes

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I don't believe in God.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I don't believe in God.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I'm not a religious person.