"A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it."

-- Sam Harris

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Strong Quotes

“We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.”

Source : 1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.
“I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.”

Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.
“A honest man is seldom a vagrant.”
“I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.”
“Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?”
“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.”

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