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“If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.”

Ifs Faces Atheism Battle Horse Finals Positive Atheism Heat Bruised Baton Cavalry

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”

Way Firsts Two Blood Atheism Thousand Judgment Horse Jew Positive Atheism Miles Knees Temples Marvelous Jordan Ecstatic Crusades Solomon Thousand Miles

Author:Herbert J. Muller

“If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.”

Ifs Atheism Draws Horse Paint Positive Atheism Lions Oxen

Author:Xenophanes

“Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.”

Hands Might President Prayer Clear Atheism Mines Miracle Horse Positive Atheism Assumption Reaching President George W Bush

Author:Natalie Angier

“Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!”

“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”

Wisdom Wise Atheism Horse Instruction Wiser Tigers Wrath Innocence And Experience

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.”

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.”

Ifs Men Hands Black Imagine Atheism Fashion Humility Draws Red Horse Blue Lions Blue Eyed

Author:Xenophanes

“If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.”

Ifs Looks Hands Religion Atheism Draws Horse Cows

Author:Xenophanes