It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINOne man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.
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An armed society is a polite society.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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