"Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty."
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"Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise."
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"What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher."
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"The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration."
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"Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness."
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"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process"
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"Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art"."
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"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."
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"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
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"Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."
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"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them."
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"Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words."
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"A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."
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"A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself."
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"All argument is against it; but all belief is for it."
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"Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world."
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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."
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