Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
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In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
