Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to...
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Robert G. Ingersoll
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Oscar Wilde
Here is your great soul–the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
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Seneca
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
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Derrick A. Bell
In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
