"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."

Religion, People, Royalty, Will

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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."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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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."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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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."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

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"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

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"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."

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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

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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 is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."

"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."

"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."