Quotes about Disbelief

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.

Muhammad

Allah hates disbelievers.

Wislawa Szymborska

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Stuart Chase

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Theodore Kaczynski

I believe in nothing.

Isaac Asimov

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Muhammad

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.

This sura is used by moderate Muslims showing that The Prophet was somewhat tolerant of those who even mock the word of Allah. Nonetheless, most fundamentalist Muslims believe that anyone who mocks the word of Allah or His Prophet should be killed. Muhammad said not to sit with them—his modern followers too often call it heresy and want to kill them.

Woody Allen

To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition

Jodie Foster

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

Bobby Fischer

I don't believe in psychology.

Joss Whedon

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

Samuel Johnson

The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.

Richard Nixon

Holy shit. Sons of bitches – I wouldn’t have seen them. They don’t deserve it. They don’t deserve it. Ill tell you this, they are never – I’m surprised that we really have – who did this?... The Ivy League presidents? Oh, I wont let those sons of bitches ever in this white house again. Never. Never. None of them. They’re finished. The Ivy League schools are finished. My God-.

Abdallah Al-Maarri

Do not suppose the statements of the Prophets to be true; they are all fabrications.

Al-Maarri’s quotations are not only meaningful in their own right, but they illustrate the openness and free thinking that was allowed in the early days of Islam before about 1100. If anyone wrote such things today in most Islamic countries he would at least be jailed if not executed for blasphemy. And if any Christian in Europe made the same statement, he would have been excommunicated at least if not tortured and murdered.