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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."

"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."

"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."


"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."


"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in."


"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family."


"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."


"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it."
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