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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
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"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."
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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
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"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."
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"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."
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"Keep your hope in the Lord."
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"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
Life
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
War
"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."
Glory
"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."
Glory
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."
Life
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
Competition
"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
War
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."
Family
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
Nature
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