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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

The Cry for Justice (1915)

The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are.

To die is the lot of all, to commit homicide only of the weak man.

Innocence would be dead long ago if wickedness were always allied to power, and calumny could prevail in all that it seeks to accomplish.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

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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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