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"Dalai Lama once said that ‘My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.’ This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another." »Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!" »Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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"We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us" »Andrew Schneider
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"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." »Robert Jackson
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"freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." »Bergen
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"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand." »John Adams
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"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions." »Anais Nin
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"God is religion; religion is God! There is no need ever for holy books, for holy rules or for so called holy envoys! God is religion; religion is God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
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"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." »Albert Camus
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." »Thomas Jefferson
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"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." »Neil Postman
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"Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity." »Unknown
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"Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement." »Federico Fellini
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"God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." »Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." »Socrates
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." »Kierkegaard
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"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." »Mark Twain
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"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion." »Kahlil Gibran
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." »Mark Twain
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