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"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome." |
Winston Churchill |
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"Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen." - Homer Simpson |
Homer Simpson |
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A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22) |
Bible |
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. |
D.H. Lawrence |
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A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime |
Albert Einstein |
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A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house |
Bible |
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. |
Abraham J. Heschel |
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A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation |
Albert Einstein |
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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5] |
Bible |
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Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science |
Gary Zukav |
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. |
Aldous Huxley |
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
Thomas Paine |
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul. |
Carl Gustav Jung |
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An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces |
Mark Twain |
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And among His Signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth, and the variations In your languages And your colors; verily In that are Signs For those who know |
Quran |
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