"it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises."

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Source : Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.203

Frances Wright

#Hypocrisy Quotes #Promise Quotes #Useless Quotes

“Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press
“Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.”
“In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.”
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”

Source : John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”
“As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.”
“Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.”
“Without fear I go now to God. Your future is what you will choose today.”
“Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.”

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