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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth



We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.



All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.



Criticism is prejudice made plausible.



I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinkin



Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place



The more a man dreams, the less he believes



It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him



Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.



Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop



Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals



The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages



The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.



There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.



I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms








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