#atheist

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#authority #automatically #beliefs #children #evidence

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. ↗

— Tony Blair

#because #bought #dad #especially #family

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#atheist #i #i am #must #pope

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#angry #atheism #atheists #more #people

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#being #believed #her #kept #nothing

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#appreciate #atheist #commandments #contains #document

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#atheist #cowardly #happen #know #talking

Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. ↗

— Pierre Laplace

#atheist #god #humor #mathematics #napoleon

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. ↗