John Stuart Mill Quotes

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

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.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

I have a confession: I have no faith.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

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.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.