Andy Rooney Quotes

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

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

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

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.

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with a big smile saying ‘Just stopped by to tell you there is no word. I brought along this little blank book I was hoping you could take a look at.’

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

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

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

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

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.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.