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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

Denis Diderot

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore

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