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“The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.”

Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.”

Desire Emotion Nice Atheism Dangerous Complexes Positive Atheism Yearning Nice Things Dangerous Things

Author:Karen Armstrong

“There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.”

Country Desire Religious Powerful Atheism Identity Majority Positive Atheism Religious Identity

Author:Jack Balkin

“I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.”

Ifs Giving Two Desire Wish Atheism Positive Atheism Get Up Retiring Lectures Two Days

Author:Pierre Bayle

“If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him.”

Source: The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years

“A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.”

Desire Atheism Prepared Crowds Positive Atheism Savages Mobile Realisation Impulsive

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.”

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Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

Writing Would Be Able Desire Impossible Atheism Subjects Expression Offers Sake Positive Atheism Profession Atmosphere Consistently Disobedience Civil Disobedience Trunks Satyagraha

Book:Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

“Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.”

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Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”

Knows Persons Christian Desire Father House Christ Church Rooms Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Convinced Mourning Departure Splendor Mansions Ardent

Book:The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

Source: The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”