"If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men."

-- Baron d'Holbach

#Atheist Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes

“Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
“In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.”
“Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven”
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”
“There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.”
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

Source : 'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.
“Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.”
“I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.”

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