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“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
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“Say what you want about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them”
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“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
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“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking”
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“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth”
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“Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”
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“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
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“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious”
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“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion”
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