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>>I think Voltaire had it right. "Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities."
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>Jamais aucune religion ne fut aussi féconde en crimes que le christianisme ; depuis le meurtre d'Abel jusqu'au supplice de Calas, pas une ligne de son histoire qui ne soit ensanglantée.
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>Toutes les religions prêtent la main au despotisme; je n'en connais aucune toutefois qui le favorise autant que la chrétienne.
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>[ Jean-Paul Marat]
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>Tant qu’il y aura des fripons et des imbéciles, il y aura des religions. La nôtre est sans contredit la plus ridicule, la plus absurde, et la plus sanguinaire qui ait jamais infecté le monde.
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>[Voltaire]
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>;)
And there will never be shortage of rascals and imbeciles <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
