#thou

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exception #parties #power #seek #varieties

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ↗

— Robert Conklin

#creates #feeling #into #more #resistance

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#journey #life #life is a #life is a journey #music

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#chirac #his #i #jacques #jacques chirac

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#committing #create #created #even #i

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#bill of rights #even #had #never #rights

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#being #editorials #i #intimate #just

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#crosby #daughter #life #me #my life

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#displaying #exertion #inward #itself #knowledge