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Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.

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Where authority represses freedom, rebellion becomes the hard work of love, which is necessary because love, freedom, and spirit are inseparable.

A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

The female has learned by long experience to win by losing, to wield power in the passive-aggressive manner of the sadomasochist.

Within the horizon of this [western] myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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