Cloris Leachman Quotes

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.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I'm not a religious person at all.

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

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

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

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

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

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

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

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

I rightly pass for an atheist.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

A mere society form of Atheism.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

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.