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Here is a list of some of my favorite quotes:
| On Life |
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
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| On Morality |
Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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| On Government Spending |
"The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled." -Cicero. 106-43 B.C.
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| On God |
"The Christian god can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."--Thomas Jefferson
Today, Easter Day of the Holy Year
Here under the emblem of Notre Dame of Paris
I accuse the universal Catholic Church of the lethal diversion of our living strength towards an empty heaven
I accuse the Catholic Church of swindling
I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with its funereal morality
of being the running sore on the decomposed body of the West
Verily I say unto you: God is dead
We vomit the agonizing insipidity of your prayers
For your prayers have been the greasy smoke over the battlefields of our Europe
Go forth then into the tragic and exalting desert of a world where God is dead
and till this earth anew with your bare hands
with your PROUD hands
with your unpraying hands
Today, Easter day of the Holy Year
Here under the emblem of Notre Dame of France
We proclaim the death of the Christ-god, so that Man may live at last
—Berna
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?
If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future?
If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers?
If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?
If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?
If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them?
If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him?
If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable?
If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees?
If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?
If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
—Abraham Lincoln
the whole concept of a merciful god who answered prayers necessarily requires the obverse, that is, a cruel god who chooses to ignore the prayers of others.
I am surrounded by priests who tell me their Kingdom is not of this world, but who do everything possible to get a hold on this one
—Napoleon Buonaparte.
Instead of using religion to decide what is moral, they're rather using what they think is moral to decide what is religious.
Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.
The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
—al-Ma'arri (973-1057 C.E)
Fear of this angry God is what scares the hell out of Americans and Atheists bring it too close for comfort for them.
Christian Americans hate atheists because we don't play your game of "Let's Pretend." We make you feel foolish, don't we? Because you know, deep down inside, that you're living in a fantasy land. So it helps to demonize us.
"God" is just like Santa Claus except his presents are supposed to come AFTER you die
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| On the Environment |
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
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| On Music |
music is like candy...you have to get rid of the wrappers
you cant spell CRAP without RAP!
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| Humorous |
I don’t mind if politicians have young boys or girls in the closet, if that’s what makes the government runs smoothly then go ahead.
Life is a lethal disease that spreads through sexual contacts.
Always remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, [then] a humanitarian eats humans!
A computer doesn't run on electricity...it runs on smoke. Because, once you let the smoke out of the computer, it doesn't work anymore.
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