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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte