"We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Atheist Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Men Quotes

“It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.”
“But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.”

Source : "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.”
“Long live eternal Germany!”

Source : Last words; quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 565 - by Jon E. Lewis, 2002, October 16, 1946.
“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.”
“I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.”

Source : Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.
“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”
“Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso

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