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religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion vivid intense
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. Edward Hoagland
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
religion atheism might
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion belief equations
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism doe world
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. Kurt Vonnegut
atheism today socialism
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. August Bebel
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
evolution niche problem
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche. David Deutsch
evolution communism inevitable
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable. Charles de Gaulle
evolution vague definite
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. Charles Sanders Peirce
evolution following general tennis
We're following the evolution of tennis in general a little bit. Stephane Simean
evolution reason come-up
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. Dennis Prager
evolution growth laid natural project projects series timing
This project is part of a series of projects we laid out in 1999. The timing isn't anything more than the natural evolution of the growth in the community. Charlie Miller
evolution consciousness
An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness. Deepak Chopra
evolution golf natural overall players quality
The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.
evolution steal subtle
I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it was so intrusive. That's why I like Evolution - it's a strong yet subtle scent. Trey Songz