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"I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."
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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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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it."
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