I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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