A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

How many times have we heard - all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere - "but to be a Catholic like that, it's better to be an atheist." It is that, scandal. You destroy. You beat down. And this happens every day, it's enough to see the news on TV, or to read the papers. In the papers there are so many scandals, and there is also the great publicity of the scandals. And with the scandals there is destruction.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.