Quotes About Atheist Morality

#1. Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.

John Derbyshire

#2. I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Katharine Hepburn

#3. He was broad-shouldered, dark-haired and dark-eyed; more than once, women had been noted openly regarding him, and not just immigrant women or those who smoked in public.

Dennis Lehane

#4. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Albert Einstein

#5. I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Cary Fukunaga

#6. That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Jack Welch

#7. Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

Travis Culliton

#8. I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Travis Culliton

#9. I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

Colleen Atwood

#11. I'm sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands," Kitteredge said. "He's a friend of the family."

So that's it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Don Winslow

#12. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Baron D'Holbach

#13. Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Frances Power Cobbe

#14. When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

Molly Antopol

#15. ...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

Travis Culliton

#16. Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Rachel Griffiths

#17. I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Elizabeth Moon

#18. Every atheist who believes in morality, gravity, and does math is a closeted believer.

Todd Friel

#19. Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

Penn Jillette

#20. If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Fanny Mendelssohn

#21. Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

Margherita Hack

#22. Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

Ravi Zacharias

#23. The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

Richard M. Rorty

#24. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#25. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Isabel Allende

#26. Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.

Mick Cochrane

#27. When God calls a man He entrust something to him

Sunday Adelaja

#28. If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ... Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

Thomas Jefferson