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“The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.”

Philosophy Light Atheism Ignorance Revolution Prove Victim Positive Atheism Minorities Multitudes Confined French Revolution

Book:The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

Source: The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

“The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.”

Used Purpose Liberty Sacrifice Atheism Fool Female Victim Males Positive Atheism Flesh Priests Intestines

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.”

Sin Atheism Crime Grew Becoming Originals Victim Misery Positive Atheism Doctrine Delusion Helpless Witchcraft Celibacy Original Sin Asceticism

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.”

Facts Atheism Hundred Victim Positive Atheism Remarkable Witch Burned Standing Out Wizards Witchcraft Scarce

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.”

Giving May War Left Prayer Behinds Atheism Duty Hero Victim Bows Left Behind Bereavement Homage

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.”

Ifs Lying Religion Fall Three Atheism Victim Toms Moses

Author:John Adams

“In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.”

People Said Christian Atheism Position Humility Unique Victim Historical Atheist London Statements Dialogue Palestinian Plight

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.”

People Politics Fear Common Atheism Victim Stupidity Rage Common Sense Outlines Chalk

Author:Dennis Miller

“"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."”

“Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?”

Thinking Way Fear Atheism Circumstances Victim Rage Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Peter Jennings

“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.”

Ifs Knows Mind May Hard Chance Successful Atheism Computer Victim Deny Chances Are Viruses Computer Viruses

Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the greatest confidence trick of all time.”

People Trying Believe Wish Atheism Divine Eternal Expectations Victim Rewards Creator Positive Atheism Tricks All Time Obedience

Author:Barbara Smoker