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We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger.

— Jorge Rafael Videla Christopher Hitchens (2010)

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As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure.

Bony-thin and mediocre in appearance, with a scrubby moustache, he looks for all the world like a cretin impersonating a toothbrush.

I want to clarify that Argentine citizens are not victims of the repression. The repression is against a minority that we do not consider Argentine.

Patricia Marchak (2004)

The women giving birth, who I respect as mothers, were militants who were active in the machine of terror... Many used their unborn children as human shields.

[I take] full military responsibility for the actions of the army in the war against terrorism.

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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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