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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.…
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man…
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they…
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,…

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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. — Ambrose Bierce
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live… — Mahatma Gandhi
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the… — Gautama Buddha
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,… — Baron d'Holbach
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. — Francis Picabia
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi
I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up… — Sarah Rees Brennan
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of… — Ambrose Bierce
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. — Emile Faguet

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