To be an atheist requires...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

--Joseph Addison

They now have a 900 number for atheists...

They now have a 900 number for atheists. When you call, nobody answers and you get charged for the call.

--Anonymous

There are no atheists...

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

--William Cummings

Nobody talks about God as those...

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

--Heywood Broun

No one is so thoroughly superstitious...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe

If I were granted omnipotence...

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

--Bertrand Russell

I do not believe in God because...

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

--Clarence S. Darrow

By night an atheist...

By night an atheist half believes in God.

--Edward Young

Atheism is rather in the life...

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.

--Francis Bacon

Nietzsche and Modern Times; A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

An atheist, like a Christian...

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial...an agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice.

--Bertrand Russell

Two great European narcotics...

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche and Modern Times; A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche

An atheist is one who hopes...

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

--Franklin P. Jones