Salman Rushdie Quotes

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

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

I don't believe in God.

The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

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

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

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

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

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

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I don't believe in God.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

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

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

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 bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in.