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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.