Emma Goldman Quotes

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

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

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.

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

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

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.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.

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 don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

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 don’t approve of religion.

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

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

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

I don't believe in God.

Where there is no God, all is permitted.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.