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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

— Annie Besant

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

— Lynn Coady

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

— Augustus Hare

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

— Amanda Donohoe

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

— Simone Weil

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

— Brad Pitt

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

— Edmond de Goncourt

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

— George Santayana

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

— Dennis Prager

✗Opposing Perspectives

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

— Maximilien Robespierre