Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. ~ Ambrose Bierce Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom. ~ J. Krishnamurthi All Bibles are man-made. ~ Thomas Edison The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~ Bertrand Russell What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? ~ Mohandas Gandhi The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale. ~ Aesop He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ~ Thomas Jefferson In order to learn, one must change one's mind. ~ Orson Scott Card It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. ~ Albert Einstein It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just isn't so. ~ Satchel Paige None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion is the end of love and honesty, the beginning of confusion; faith is a colorful hope or fear, the origin of folly. ~ Tao Te Ching Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~ Elbert Hubbard Git yer guns, the liberal folks are gonna let the coloreds vote! ~ Unknown If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. ~ Steve Allen I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? It is because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. ~ J. Krishnamurthi I saw a human skull the other day. There was an inscription below it: ‘Look long and hard at me, for I was once as you are and you will soon be as I am. ~ Unknown To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ Confucius I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~ Frederick Douglass, escaped slave MORE

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