"The Christian god is a being of terrific……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
— Nick Harkaway
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