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If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. Eleanor Roosevelt
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most? Edward Abbey
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Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression? David Bowie
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There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. Dave Navarro
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If I'm gonna commit suicide, I'll go out eatin' pussy to death. Dave Mustaine
suicide constitution pact
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Abraham Lincoln
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
suicide wish
I wish we didn't have the problem. I wish we didn't have suicide bombers at all. I wish I could go like that and they're gone, Charles Clarke
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
atheism atheist consider desire organized people religion sunday
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
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Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
atheism superstitions
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot
atheism orthodoxy corpses
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. Elbert Hubbard
atheism metaphor creeds
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
atheism superstitions theology
Theology is Classified Superstition.
atheism earth slave
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
atheism inferiority taught
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
atheism hebrew accepting
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.