"My intent is to tell the truth as……" — Gerry Spence
"My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others."
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38 Quotes by Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence has 38 quotes on this site.
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of…
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others,…
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve…
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such…
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The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The…
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the…
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The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that…
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out…
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We are defined by how we use our power.
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More Blasphemy Quotes
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and…
— Annie Besant
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is…
— Mark Twain
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a…
— Martin Luther
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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