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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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“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
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“For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.”
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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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“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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“Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking”
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“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
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“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
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“We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
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“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
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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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