"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."
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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
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"The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions."
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"I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe."
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"The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove."
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"Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly."
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"Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident."
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"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
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"Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion"
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"It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior."
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"I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations."
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"some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks."
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"There is zero evidence for god."
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"Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere."
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"If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion."
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"The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist."
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"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?"
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"Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot."
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"Men freely believe that which they desire."
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"Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros."
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