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“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.”

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Book:Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding

Source: Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding

“Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.”

Men Religion Fashion Every Man One Man Trimming

Author:John Selden

“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love