Nature of man Quote by Sheri S. Tepper

““And in the end, unable to feel terror, mankind will go, we will all go down, down, down to happyland.””

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“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence and authoritarianism, belligerence and suspicion, and that’s what goes into all their myths or scriptures. Then, if they survive long enough, they begin to develop morality. They examine their own history, and they learn that authoritarianism…

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[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have…

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“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments… They will do it, then they…

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“If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.”

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“Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going on. For every scientist or person in government who really tried to conquer, there were a thousand people buying lottery tickets, drinking beer, watching football, and growing old.” Nell objected, “We would have outgrown that…” The…

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The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

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There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

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“Rich people didn't get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws…

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The expression of divinity is in variety.

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