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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."
"Blind faith is not real religion my friend."
"The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false, the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless."
"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."
"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."
"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."
"I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories."
"I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs."
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"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
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