Bertrand Russell Quotes

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

I rightly pass for an atheist.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

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.

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

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

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

What does an atheist scream when they come?

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

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 a born - again atheist.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

I'm an atheist.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

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.

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

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