"But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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“You are what you love, not who loves you... a person who loves has always won, no matter whether or not the love is fulfilled.”
“Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.”

Source : West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)
“Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond”
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media
“There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (2004). “The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.117, Routledge
“Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.”
“You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.”
“I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.”

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