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I don't believe in faith. I believe in reason and you have not shown me any.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].

The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.

Chartism: An Introductory Essay (1929)

Socialists should understand that it is their duty to do anything in their power directly or indirectly to assist the revolutionary opposition within fascist countries.

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

Notes for Lecturers to the LLY [Labour League of Youth (1938)

I was a witness of two civil wars and their ghastly and tragic consequences, and I learnt, as never before, to value the freedom of British political traditions.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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