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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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.
superstitions way bluffs
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. Carl Sagan
superstitions looks belief
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. Edward Gibbon
superstitions tribes primitive
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Bill Maher
superstitions different submission
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Blaise Pascal
superstitions materialism
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. Baha'u'llah
superstitions
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. Baruch Spinoza
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none. Celia Green
superstitions worst tolerable
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Doris Lessing
superstitions belief anarchist
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. Andre Malraux