“Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.” MenMindReligionLosesFreedomStepsEstatesUnlimitedPostureGood Posture Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.” Has BeensMadeI CanReligionStepsProgressOpponentsContradictionEvery StepClergyVigilant Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.” WorldReasonLyingReligionFallDarkStepsThis WorldFlowerImpactNo ReasonOverwhelmingComprehensionMeadowsRealisationStunnedCaptivatedDazed Author:Quentin Smith
“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.” CharacterBodyPoliticalReligionChurchReligiousViewsStepsRightsMetsDemandSlaveryPropertyEducationalResistanceBitterOppositionWomens RightsEvery StepReligious FreedomTemperanceClergyKindredExponentsAnti SlaveryPolitical EqualityPersonal Rights Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.” ThinkingSelfReligionSinStepsUnusualExaminationProtestantismSelf-examinationUnusual Things Author:Stendhal
“Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.” MenWarAgeReligionChristStepsCourageDoubtMilitaryDeedsCarrieEvery StepDiscouragement Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.” BelieveDoeReligionNextStepsSeriousAtheistObjectivesJust OneFaith In GodNext StepsShiva Author:Richard Dawkins