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- Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a…
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and…
- We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
- The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.…
- The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being…
- Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.
- The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
- If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
- And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
- I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
- It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory
- If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what…
- Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms…
- The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to…
- Obscenity comes from grime.
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle