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Word Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to…
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called…
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which…
- But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even…
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
- Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
- It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses,…
- The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and…
- The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of…
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- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
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