Walter Lippmann Quotes

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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.

Atheists are pious people.

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

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

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

Many good people practice no faith at all.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

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

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

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

I'm not a religious person at all.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I'm a humanist.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

The secular mind is God's huge gift to us, for us to use for the sake of one another.