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"Humanity is the grand religion, and no God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy. God cannot hate anybody who is capable of loving anybody. Humanity -- that word embraces all there is." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"How long, O how long will [hu]mankind worship a book? How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past? How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?" - Robert G. Ingersoll
"For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom." Robert Ingersoll
"Nothing discloses character like the use of power." - Robert G. Ingersoll
" Above all creeds, above all religions, after all, is that divine thing -- Humanity." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can." - Frank Sinatra
"I'm for decency, period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man." - Frank Sinatra
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death...and yet...I think...this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again." - Anne Frank
"I've found that there is always some beauty left in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again, [...] and then you regain your balance." - Anne Frank
"Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." - Carl Sagan
"There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality." - Richard Dawkins
"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
"It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence." - Gandhi
"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature." - Gandhi
"Speak only if it improves upon the silence." - Gandhi
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Gandhi
"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of � 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" - Kurt Vonnegut
"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool." - Kurt Vonnegut
"About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. " - Kurt Vonnegut
"As I understand it - and my understanding of this is vague, at best - another smaller group of people stole some airplanes and crashed them into buildings. And we're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervor, religious fervor. And if you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamned sense?" - David Letterman, 17 Sept. 2001