Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human b...
Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a gen...
I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claim...
An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in...
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted
The only law is one which leads to freedom
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Our Purpose Is to Be Who We Are; Our Mission Is to Find Something to Live For.
Fighting Life Creates an Enemy, Flowing with Life Creates Harmony.
I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.
Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.
The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans.
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.
