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You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are read more
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the read more
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Don't be an agnostic--be something.
Don't be an agnostic--be something.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
