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Ireland and Russia are the two most ‘Christian’ countries in Europe. To-day they are the most disfigured by violence and outrage. What do you make of that?

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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The intelligence is not free in the presence of a mortal fear lest its conclusions should trouble soft tranquillity of spirit.

On Compromise (1908)

Define it as we may, faith in Progress has been the mainspring of Liberalism in all its schools and branches.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

On Compromise (1908)

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

Rousseau (1876)

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

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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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