"There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote."
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"If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews."
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"Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust."
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
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"You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance."
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"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
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"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
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"A functioning police state needs no police."
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"In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"
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"Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle."
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth."
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"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
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"Religion is all bunk."
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"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."
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"Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself."
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"I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest."
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"The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life"."
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"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."
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"I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there."
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"Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak."
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