"For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism."

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Source : "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, ch. 6, 1961.

Walter Kaufmann

#Suffering Quotes #Special Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
“NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.”
“Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.”
“The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.”

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".”
“There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”
“" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.”

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