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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Denis Diderot

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
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
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
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

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