Politics Quote by Susan Jacoby

““They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all; to prevent the few from governing the many, and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.””

Susan Jacoby

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If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in…

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“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls,…

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Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize…

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I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.

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The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of…

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“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns, which generated…

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For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest…

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