"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
― Bertrand Russell
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― Bertrand Russell
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- "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
- "Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
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- "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may."― Joseph Lancaster
- "When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve."― Sally Pearson
- "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that."― Richard Dawkins