The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777
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The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCAh! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCI shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669