#lie

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#belief #cruel #god #makes #man

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#believing #consist #consists #does #faithful

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream. ↗

— Carl Paladino

#american dream #because #believe #dream #i

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents? ↗

— Carl Paladino

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. ↗

— Michael Palin

#believe #between #contrary #creating #leaders

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#came #citizens #culture #ebay #end

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#believe #competition #strengthens #us

We believe every child is created equal with the right to life. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#child #created #equal #every #life