There are no atheists...

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

--William Cummings

That the universe was formed by a...

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

--Jonathan Swift

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

Is there not something a trifle absurd...

Is there not something a trifle absurd in the spectacle of human beings holding a mirror before themselves, and thinking what they behold so excellent as to prove that a Cosmic Purpose must have been aiming at it all along?

--Bertrand Russell

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 consider it an insult...

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

--Clarence S. Darrow

He was a wise man who...

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

--Euripides

By night an atheist...

By night an atheist half believes in God.

--Edward Young

I do not think that the real reason...

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

--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