"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

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"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

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"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."

"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value."

"Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy."

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."