"Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short."

-- Carl Sagan

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.”
“I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.”
“I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.”

Source : "My Favorite Movie: Zoe Lister-Jones" by Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. June 04, 2012.
“We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.”
“My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.”
“What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?”
“We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.”
“The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".”

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