"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
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"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence."
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"Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question."
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"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."
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"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
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"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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"The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives."
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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."
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"Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true."
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"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
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"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
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"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."
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"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
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