“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure.”
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“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
― God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
― God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
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“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”
― The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
― The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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