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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

The Women (1936)

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

The Women (1936)

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Europe in the Spring (1940)

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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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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