I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. – Charles Darwin
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. – Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. – Jacob Hacker