"What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God."
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"Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters."
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"I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense."
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"The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own."
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"Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men."
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"For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?"
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"Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look."
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"Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces."
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"Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian."
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"I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith."
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"His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way."
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"There are no atheist in foxholes."
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"Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before."
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"To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion."
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"This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark."
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"It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of."
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"That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen."
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"Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact."
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"The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature."
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"l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create."
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