Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man (More Lay Thoughts of a Dean).
The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress).
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