I am against the word ‘anti’ because it’s a little bit like ‘atheist,’ as compared to ‘believer.’ And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is. – Marcel Duchamp
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist – being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. – Julia Sweeney
A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality. – Lynn Coady
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I’m grown up, though, I’m not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. – Padma Lakshmi
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion – but it is a religion that is obligatory for all. – Rocco Buttiglione
I’m sure Obama is an atheist; I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. – Richard Dawkins
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism. – Rupert Sheldrake
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. – Susan B. Anthony