"That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth."

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Richard Carrier

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”
“I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.”
“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.”
“I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.”
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.”
“Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.”
“I was raised with this consciousness of being part of this global Muslim community. At the same time, I didn't even know if I wanted to be Muslim. It was this incredibly complicated moment: I just needed to balance these two things where you care about people on some deep level who are my co-religion and are being killed because of their religion. Then, at the same time, I'm like ah, I don't really know if I want this.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.”

Source : 'Old Ships' (1915)

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