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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.
— Hakim Bey
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Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
— Aldous Huxley
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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the…
— William Osler
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Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners…
— Cassandra Clare
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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they…
— Baron d'Holbach
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No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
— Bertrand Russell
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