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Extravagant and lavish way of life which is not in accord with basic requirements for meaningful survival, atop of it exuberant galaxial disposition and display of vanity and wealth, in actual sense means self-uttered and self-boomed maxim of life. (MAJLISH Guru)
Render unproductive surplus of service and materials for proper utilisation and thereby untie the knot of the inhuman, undesirable social strata. (MAJLISH Guru)
Things could be assigned or to be entrusted with a person in accordance with his qualities, capability and above all his need. (MAJLISH Guru)
The dictum enforced in the past, several centuries ago, to give away whatever you have to others and live as a man of nature forgetting all comforts, not to speak of luxury, even forgetting all about the basic needs, totally being a void person, just like a beggar or sanyasi, to have peace in mind, is no longer tenable in the modern advancing world - creating revolutions, inventing things having much academic and practical utility. (MAJLISH Guru)
The dictum 'give away all to have peace' cannot claim applause. (MAJLISH Guru)
The society we live in is dilapidated, blacktaped, totally submerged in the muck of evils and dominated by selfseekers and fanatics. The whole world is more or less infected by these evils. To put this evil invaded society in the right track is, in fact, an intractable task. Nevertheless MAJLISH shall carry on its efforts relentlessly on and on forever! (Majlish Guru)
Ideas imbued with truth, in all ages, face intractable obstruction due largely to obsession with rounded up conjecture and unfounded but popularly believed messages. However, truth shall be revealed and shall survive all through. New ideology and truth-based conjugated concept is usually unpalatable to people who are surmounted by preconceptions, prejudices and ritual bound bigotry but remains ever glowing. (Majlish Guru)
Free thinking is the pre-requisite for attaining spiritual enlightenment. (Majlish Guru)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. (Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein)
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. (Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein)
The world is too dangerous to live in—not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen. (Albert Einstein)
I do not know how World War III will be fought but the next one would be fought with sticks and stones! (Albert Einstein)
Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. (Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?)
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?)
I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. (Albert Einstein, Conversation on Religion and Antisemitism)
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. (Einstein on the Mysterious)
Gravitation can not be held responsible for falling in love. (Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (Words of Wisdom from Albert Einstein)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Albert Einstein)
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)
"The world is too dangerous to live in—not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen." (Albert Einstein)
If the bible were written today, it would be illegal to give to minors. (Eight Star)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (Philip K Dick)
" . . . that wealth has flowed, and still flows, from the Third World to Europe, the United States, Japan and a few other countries". (Teresa Hayter (1989): op. cit.; p. 1)
" . . . incredible as it may seem, the poor countries have been an indispensable source of finance capital for the world-wide expansion of global corporations" (Richard J. Barnet & Ronald E. Muller: 'Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations'; London; 1975; p. 125)
" . . . to lure the developing country into a position of complete subservience to the aid-giving country". (Naved Hamid: 'Foreign Aid: A Trap?'; Lahore; 1974; p. ii)
"Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world". 1961 (John Kennedy, in: Teresa Hayter: 'The Creation of World Poverty' (hereafter listed as 'Teresa Hayter (1982)': London; 1982; p. 83)
"Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves".1968 (Richard Nixon, in: Teresa Hayter (1982): ibid.; p. 63-84)
The whole 'aid'-giving process " . . . establishes dependency, destroys self-reliance". (Gerald Holtham & Arthur Hazlewood: Aid and Inequality in Kenya: British Development Assistance to Kenya'; London; 1976; p. 254)
"The offer to grant development aid, the granting of aid, the maintenance of aid, the threat to withdraw aid, and the withdrawal of aid, each offer the potential to exert political influence". (Peter Byrd: 'Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid', in: Anuradha Bose & Peter Burnell (Eds.): Britain's Overseas Aid since 1979: Between Idealism and Self-Interest'; Manchester; 1991; p. 53)
" . . . useful for prompting a recipient to opt for political and economic solutions to its problems in a manner most consistent with what the donor feels to be advantageous". (Robert S. Walters: 'American and Soviet Aid: A Comparative Analysis'; Pittsburgh; 1970; p. 245)
'Aid'is of particular benefit to arms manufacturers: "Debt is fuelled by arms: Pakistan and India between them spend more than . . . �6 billion a year on arms imports. . . . Britain is at the centre of this trade, with a $5 billion defence export industry directly employing more than 150,000 people. In 1996, Indonesia alone spent �438 million on British-produced weapons". ('Guardian', 15 May 1998; p. 6)
"Although the imperialists have lost their colonies, they are as avid as ever to fleece other people, if they can. To do so in the changed circumstances, they are building a new system of exploitation in place of the shattered colonial system, using new methods towards the same end, which is to keep the now independent peoples under their own economic control" (Mailakovievich Volkov: 'The Strategy of Neo-colonialism Today'; Moscow; 1976; p. 6)
It is the common habit of established governments and especially those which are themselves oppressors, to brand all violent methods in subject peoples and communities as criminal and wicked. When you have disarmed your slaves and legalised the infliction of bonds, stripes, and death on any one of them who may dare to speak or act against you, it is natural and convenient to try and lay a moral as well as a legal ban on any attempt to answer violence by violence... (Biplobi (Revolutionary) Aurobindo Ghos)
Whenever the natural process of national and political evolution is violently suppressed by the forces of wrong, then revolution must step in as a natural reaction and therfore ought to be welcomed as the only effective instrument to reenthrone Truth and Right. You (the British imperialists) rule by bayonets and under these circumstances it is a mockery to talk of constitutional agitation when no constitution exists at all. But it would be worse than a mockery, even a crime when there is a constitution that allows the fullest and freeest developement of a nation. Only because you (British) deny us a gun, we pick up a pistol. Only because you deny us light, we gather in darkness to compass means to knock out the fetters that hold our Mother down. (V. D. Savarkar, Indian Hero, the real Father of India)
Our struggle will continue as long as a handful of men, be they foreign or native, or both in collaboration with each other, continue to exploit the labour and resources of our people. Nothing shall deter us from this path. (Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Revolutionary)
You can only hang me, what more can you do? We are not afraid of that. (Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Revolutionary)
I will get life imprisonment or capital punishment. But I will prefer the latter so that after rebirth I may again be prepared for the struggle of India's freedom. I will die again and again till India becomes free. This is my last wish. (Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian Revolutionary)
By 'Revolution' we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdowns, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognised and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. (Bhagat Singh Indian Revolutionary)
"The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system". (Karl Marx: 'The East Indian Question?, in: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: 'Collected Works', Volume 12; London; 1979; p. 198)
" . . . the Mohammedan leaders were inspired by certain Anglo-Indian officials, and that these officials pulled wires at Simla and in London and of malice aforethought sowed discord between the Hindu and the Mohammedan communities". (James Ramsay MacDonald: 'The Awakening of India'; London; 1910; p. 284)
Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man. (Ernesto Che Guevara, October 9th, 1967, just before being murdered)
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
Carlos, cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! (Ernesto Che Guevara)
You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice? (Helen Keller)
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. (Helen Keller)
College isn't the place to go for ideas. (Helen Keller)T
he most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. (Helen Keller)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Hellen Keller)
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. (Thomas Alva Edison)
All Bibles are man-made. (Thomas Alva Edison)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (Thomas Alva Edison)
Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.... Vaccination never saved human life. It does not prevent smallpox. (The Golden Age, (predecessor to "Awake!"), Feb. 4, 1931 (Jehovah's Witnesses))
In all history, it is victors who write and record their life and times. Life-a cavalcade of glory, times-a fabulous spectacle. The vanquished are doubly disappeared. Once by exclusion from the national saga, next by the avalanche of blatant partisanship commemorating the oppressors as heroes. All the gore, greed, and grimness of immortal adventures and unjust aggressions are adroitly turned into a simple equation of good defeating evil. Simplism, embedded in lies, can be easily assimilated to memory as righteousness. (I K Shukla, MAHABHARATA : THE REVENGE OF THE NON-ARYANS?)
Yes, my friends, I too am prepared to die for a cause, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. (M. K. Gandhi)
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy. (M. K. Gandhi)
I think it would be a good idea. (M. K. Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization)
There is enough for man's need but not for man's greed. (M. K. Gandhi)
Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trains. (M. K. Gandhi)
Ours is one continued struggle sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir (Africans), whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. (M. K. Gandhi)
We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races. (M. K. Gandhi)
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato)
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. (Democritus)
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. (Diodorus Siculus, about 20 B.C.)
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. (Diogenes)
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, Then how come evil in the world? (Epicurus, 350-270 BC?)
Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death,is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist. (Epicurus)
What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes? (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. (Jean Cocteau)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)
The more I study the world, The more I am convinced of the inability of Brute force to create anything durable. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses." (Frederick The Great)
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Darrow)
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. (Sigmund Freud)
When you philosophically oppose an entire power elite you cannot help but sound like a conspiracy theorist. Social power is by nature a conspiracy. (Tom N)
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. (Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back)
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomarrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. (Sanskrit proverb)
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. (Rabindranath Thakur, Nobel Poet)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, Be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb)
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow. (Buddha)
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow. (Swami Vivekananda)
He who knows others is learned, he who knows himself is wise. (Lao Tsze)
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain)
Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. (Mark Twain)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. (Elbert Hubbard)
"Why do you bother with him? He's had thousands of people killed!" "Yes, but perhaps he thought that you wanted it." (The Great God Om and Brutha having a conversation, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. (Aldous Huxley)
Black holes are where God divided by zero. (Steven Wright)
Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. (Ambrose Bierce)
Wit is educated insolence. (Aristotle)
Take the clouds from your eyes and see me as I really am. (Don Quixote)
What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven? (Bart Simpson, The Simpsons)
They say you are a man of good... taste. (Dracula to Jonathan Harker, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. (Wilson Mizner)
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. (Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan)
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. (Andrew Marvell)
Virgin birth: an oxymoron on which an entire religion was formed. (Marquis De Sade: Quills Movie)
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.(Dom Helder Camara)
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. (Lucy Parsons)
Profanity is the last refuge of the truly ignorant. (Spock)
Religion is the first refuge of the truly ignorant! (NOVO)
Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. (Unknown)
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. (Braveheart)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F. Kennedy)
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. (Frederick Douglass, 1857)
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. (Frederick Douglass, 1857)
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. (Andrew Young, 1977)
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. (Nelson Mandela, 1953)
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. (Malcom X, 1963)
He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester. (Woody Allen "Annie Hall")
Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "does not!". ([email protected])
Just as Philo, learned in Greek speculation, had felt a need to rephrase Judaism in forms acceptable to the logic-loving Greeks, so John, having lived for two generations in a Hellenistic environment, sought to give a Greek philosophical tinge to the mystic Jewish doctrine that the Wisdom of God was a living being, and to the Christian doctrine that Jesus was the Messiah. Consciously or not, he continued Paul's work of detaching Christianity from Judaism. Christ was no longer presented as a Jew, living more or less under the Jewish Law; he was make to address the Jews as "you," and to speak of their Law as "yours"; he was not a Messiah sent "to save the lost sheep of Israel," he was the coeternal Son of God; not merely the future judge of mankind, but the primeval creator of the universe. In this perspective the Jewish life of the man Jesus could be put into the background, faded almost as in Gnostic heresy; and the god Christ was assimilated to the religious and philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic mind. Now the pagan world-- even the anti-Semitic world--could accept him as its own. (Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization)
Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them. (Steve Eley)
When Yahweh your god has settled you in the land you're about to occupy, and driven out many infidels before you...you're to cut them down and exterminate them. You're to make no compromise with them or show them any mercy. (Deut. 7:1 (KJV))
Have you allowed all the women to live? Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. (Prophet Moses after Medians were defeated, Num 31 Old Testament)
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. (Charles Dickens)
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degredation left in the world. (Charles Dickens)
The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress. (Emmet F. Fields)
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. (George W. Foote)
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.... (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,Q92, art. 1, Reply Obj. 1)
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? (NY State Senator James Donovan, speaking in support of capital punishment)
God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That sir, is not free will. It would be akin to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment/execution. When god says the same we call him "loving" and build churches in his honor. (William C. Easttom II)
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God." (George Bush)
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion. (George Washington)
The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. (Abraham Lincoln)
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. (John Adams)
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. (US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, speech to the Christian Coalition, Sept. 1993, as reported in ADL Report, 1994)
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. (Martin Luther King)
The Roman Catholic motto is ourselves alone for fellow Roman Catholics. We must defeat all heretics (non-Roman Catholics) at the ballot box. The holy father states that negative tactics are fatal. The demands of the holy father (the pope) are that the public services should be 100% Roman Catholic soon. Care must be taken that no suspicion may be raised when Roman Catholics are secretly given more government jobs than Protestants, Jews, and other heretics. (Australian Archbishop Gilroy, 1940)
Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest. (Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
And whereas it has also come to the knowledge of the said Congregation that the Pythagorean doctrine -- which is false and altogether opposed to the Holy Scripture -- of the motion of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, which is also taught by Nicolaus Copernicus in De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium, and by Diego de Zuiga on Job, is now being spread abroad and accepted by many... Therefore, in order that this opinion may not insinuate itself any further to the prejudice of Catholic truth, the Holy Congregation has decreed that the said Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus orbium, and Diego de Zuiga, On Job, be suspended until they are corrected. (Decree of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Index condemning "De Revolutionibus", March 5, 1616)
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. (Saint Augustine)
The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished. (Muslim religious edict, 1993, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia)
A Boss in Heavan is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. (Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Russian anarchist, atheist author, and founder of Nihilism)
About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ... Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection. (Gerald L. Berry, "Religions of the World")
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce)
Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion. (Joseph Campbell)
There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral. (Rev. Alexander Campbell)
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example. (Rev. R. Furman, D.D., Baptist, of South Carolina)
The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world. (Samuel Gompers)
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. (Noam Chomsky)
The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church. (Daniel DeLeon, The Vatican in Politics, 1891)
The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past. (Daniel DeLeon, Two Pages from Roman History, 1903)
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders, a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. (R.W. Emerson)
Religion stills a thinking mind. (Greg Erwin)
7. Certain crimes are committed more immediately against God himself; others, against the state; and a third kind against certain persons. The chief crie in the first class, cognizable by temporal courts, is blasphemy, under which may be included atheism. This crime consists in denying or vilifying the Deity, by speech or writing. All who curse God or any of the persons of the blessed Trinity, are to suffer death, even for a single act; and those who deny him (sic), if they persist in their denial. The denial of a providence, or of the authority of the holy Scriptures, is punishable capitally for the third offence. (1771 edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica, under Law: Tit. 33 "Of crimes")
When religion controls government, political liberty dies;and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. (Sen. Sam Ervin)
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. (Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois")
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. (Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri)
When belief in a god dies, the god dies. (Harlan Ellison, "Deathbird Stories")
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