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Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine

“God - but a word invoked to explain the world.”

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Alphonse de Lamartine was a French Romantic poet, novelist, and politician. He is known for his lyrical poetry and novels, which have had a profound influence on literature. more

“Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.”

“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”

Self Reason Social Church Acceptance Authority Ideals Instruments Punishment Doctrine Obedience Repentance Intolerance Assurance Constraints Elevation Abnegation Obedience To Authority

Book:Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

Source: Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

“The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.”

Form Common Willing Despair Oneself

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.”

“Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.”

Men Culture Evil Strong Felt Love Is Separation Realms Inferiors

Book:Nature, Man and Woman

Source: Nature, Man and Woman

“Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.”

Men Father Poor Rich Son Worship Sacred Secular Homosexual Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.”

Hard Running Father Party Republican Clinton Debt Reputation Ran Sanity Republican Party Deficit Conservatism

Author:Bill Maher

“One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.”

Used Existence Weapons Iraq Productions Agents Thick Mobile Files Facility Biological Weapons

Author:Colin Powell

“Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.”

Spiritual Sin Cases Originals Separation Unnecessary Stubborn Infant Baptism Original Sin

Author:Martin Luther

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