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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 drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship
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development
dream
facts
fear
feeling
free
future
gods
heart
inspirational
joy
knowledge
purpose
reform
slavery
thought
threat
weak
worship
burden
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Robert Green Ingersoll |
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You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
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reform
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Terry Pratchett |
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Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
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life
nadsat
redemption
reform
suicidal-thoughts
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Anthony Burgess |
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"[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't
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brilliant
bush
capitalism
communism
corporations
corporatocracy
corruption
coup-d-état
democratic
dictator
fascism
free-trade
genius
gore
government
green-party
inefficiency
intelligent
jefferson
lincoln
nader
obama
politics
progressive
protectionism
ralph-nader
reform
rich
socialism
terrorism
transparency
washington
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Ralph Nader |
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ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? ...At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal.
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reform
repeal
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G.K. Chesterton |
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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense. But how do you know, not only that it is possible, but also that it is desirable to reform man in that way? And what leads you to the conclusion that man's inclinations need reforming? In short, how do you know that such a reformation will be a benefit to man?
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reform
science
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.
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morality
principles
reform
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Matthew Scully |
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What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man on the white horse turned out to be just a graduate of the Harvard boxing squad, equipped with an immense bag of platitudes, and quite willing to play the democratic game.
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politics
populism
progressivism
reform
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Richard Hofstadter |
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Revolutionists amke a reform, Conservatives only conserve the reform. They never reform the reform, which is often very much wanted.
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reform
revolutionist
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G.K. Chesterton |
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I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
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life
people
project
psychology
reform
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Ben Elton |
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But to have captivated such a man as Damerel into actually *wishing* to offer for you is a triumph indeed! For he must have mean tot reform his way of life, you know! There was never anything like it, and I don't scruple to own to you, my love that if it had been one of my daughters I should be as proud as a peacock.
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marriage
proposal
reform
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Georgette Heyer |
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Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today. That, however, is not a ground for dismissing them. If every proposal for reform in ethics that differed from accepted moral views had been rejected for that reason alone, we would still be torturing heretics, enslaving members of conquered races, and treating women as the property of their husbands.
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ethics
moral-philosophy
progress
reform
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Peter Singer |