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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of… — George Bernard Shaw
...heaven for climate, and hell for society. — Mark Twain
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there. — Lois McMaster Bujold
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator… — H. L. Mencken
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity.… — C.S. Lewis
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all… — Samuel Clarke
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be… — Thomas Burnet
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore… — Lewis Carroll
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely… — Immanuel Kant
Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of… — Jacques Ellul
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels… — Isaac Newton
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children,… — John Calvin
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone

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