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Symbols have the unfortunate power to acquire the importance of what they symbolise.

— A. C. Grayling Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002)

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It is the technique of the baboon to try to get its way by violence.

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Power’s tendency to corrupt is a function of the work it does in liberating man’s worse characteristics.

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There is no greater social evil than religion. It is the cancer in the body of humanity.

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“Evil” is first and foremost a religious notion. It means whatever a religion dislikes.

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