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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
— Saint Augustine
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is…
— Martin Luther
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil…
— Aaron Swartz
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Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
— Ayn Rand
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural…
— Harlan F. Stone
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One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show…
— Nadine Gordimer
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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
— Mahatma Gandhi
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