Ataturk Religion Quotes & Sayings

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule.. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed. — Nicole Sobon

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there. — Kim Cattrall

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. — Henry Fielding

Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins - thoroughly. — Orson Scott Card

I don't think we have any idea who we are. I think we're engaged in a constant battle to figure out who we are. — Chuck Klosterman

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. — Harry Mathews

Like most people, I couldn't let go of the money we'd wasted. That's why so many people eat awful meals, watch horrible movies, read terrible books, and suffer through dreadful relationships. It's why I am far from the only woman who wasted her early thirties on a relationship that wasn't going anywhere. The psychological cost of conceding that you've made a huge mistake--worse, a mistake you can't fix--is too great. So you waste even more money, or time, or effort trying to somehow salvage what you've lost. — Megan McArdle

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me. — Lizzy Caplan

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Julia doesn't like James Gillen, but that's not the point, not out here. In the Court, back in the Court any eye you catch could be Love peal-of-bells-firework-burst Love, all among the sweet spray of the music and the rainbowing prisms of the lights, this could be the one huge mystery every book and film and song is sizzling with; could be your one-and-only shoulder to lean your head on, fingers woven with yours and lips gentle on your hair and Our Song pouring out of every speaker. This could be the one heart that will open to your touch and offer up its never-spoken secrets, that has spaces perfectly shaped to hold all of yours. — Tana French

Human nature is the same in all professions. — Laurence Sterne