#heist

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. ↗

— Reverend B. Smith

#atheist #bodyguard #caesar #christian #divine

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#cats #atheist

I'm 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 people. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#atheist

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#atheist

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. ↗

— Karen Chance

#pritkin #pythia #atheist

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#the-poor #atheist

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #atheist

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. ↗

— Andy Dick

#both #christians #groups #heavy-handed #little

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