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You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as wel...

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It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...

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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you...

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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...

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My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, the...

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It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the ce...

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That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It se...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

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