"The function of law and theology are the……" — Robert Anton Wilson
"The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning."
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Robert Anton Wilson
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158 Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson has 158 quotes on this site.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This…
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what…
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet…
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid…
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Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse…
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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits,…
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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a…
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves
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More Cunning Quotes
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one of 270 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
— William Blake
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
— Pablo Casals
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
— Cesare Pavese
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