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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
Explore more quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
"Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly."
"I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain."
"There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter."
"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."
"To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur."
"What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?"
"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."
"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found."
"As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways."
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