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Book cover for God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
In Gaza, a young woman named Yusra al-Azami was shot dead in April 2005, for the crime of sitting unchaperoned in a car with her fiancé. The young man escaped with only a vicious beating. The leaders of the Hamas “vice and virtue” squad ...more
George Lynch
Sadly occurrences like this still go on in those parts of the world. Yet it’s the US that comes under the charge of a repressive nation.
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James Burnham
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.”
James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

Norman Mailer
“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

Omar Khayyám
“And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
Omar Khayyâm, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Christopher Hitchens
“It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.”
Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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