"Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery."

-- Jean Meslier

#Atheist Quotes #Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes

“This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.”

Source : "U.N. report faults prolific use of drone strikes by U.S." by David S. Cloud, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2010.
“Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.”

Source : Scott Hastie, “When In Love”
“A good strategy is not always successful, but even an "inappropriate" strategy may be an actual strategy. A "bad strategy" is one that doesn't even try to address an important challenge. Instead, it speaks of aspirations, visions of the future, lays out performance goals, or simply lists a bunch of unconnected actions.”
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
“I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would move to photography or something. I thought it was transient and it's not because of this entrenched career stubbornness that I've done it for so long, it's just something I enjoy doing, and it's the most direct way I can express something.”
“I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, 'I'm not entirely sure the band's over.'”

Source : "Nick Mason: 'I’m Not Entirely Sure Pink Floyd Is Over'". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.
“I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.”
“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”

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