Philip Roth Quotes

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.

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

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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.

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've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

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

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I am a daylight atheist.

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

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

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

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

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 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.