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- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:…
- In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses…
- The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
- ‎Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see.
- I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
- Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every…
- The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions.
- What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses…
- Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one…
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