I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

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An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

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Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.

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Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

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