Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism. . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.
I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.
I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.