Quote by Garrett Hardin
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from mop

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. – Garrett Hardin

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? – Garrett Hardin

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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. – Garrett Hardin

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. – Garrett Hardin

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Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Maos China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. – Azar Nafisi

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My sense of religion is Einsteins sense of relativity. I dont believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. – Mandy Patinkin

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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mahatma Gandhi

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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At times Ive got a really big ego. But Ill tell you the best thing about me. Im some guys dad Im some little gals dad. When I die, if they say I was Annies husband and Zachary John and Anna Kates father, boy, thats enough for me to be remembered by. Thats more than enough. – John Denver

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