As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human...
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Philip Pullman
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr....
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Yann Martel
I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.
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Marjane Satrapi
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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Edward R. Murrow
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
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Kevin Smith
More Quotes By Lyman Beecher
The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right way by religious instruction, and driven from it by the rod, and kept in thraldom by the conspiracy of priests and legislators, has...
No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
