Jonathan Swift Quotes

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

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

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.