Freethinker Quotes

Hogeye · Post by **Hogeye** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:41 pm

I should like to see the last king strangled by the guts of the last priest - J. Messelier (1733)

Hogeye · Post by **Hogeye** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:41 pm

"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature, because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual." - Mikhail Bakunin

Hogeye · Post by **Hogeye** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:40 pm

Here's a quote by a famous freethinker about the "will of the people."

Michael Bakunin wrote:A strong State can have only one solid foundation: military and bureaucratic centralization. The fundamental difference between a monarchy and even the most democratic republic is that in the monarchy. the bureaucrats oppress and rob the people for the benefit of the privileged in the name of the King, and to fill their own coffers; while in the republic the people are robbed and oppressed in the same way for the benefit of the same classes, in the name of “the will of the people” (and to fill the coffers of the democratic bureaucrats). In the republic the State, which is supposed to be the people, legally organized, stifles and will continue to stifle the real people. But the people will feel no better if the stick with which they are being beaten is labeled “the people’s stick.”

Post by **Savonarola** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:23 am

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Post by **Dardedar** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:35 pm

"Amazing! The unknown authors of the gospels lifted items out of the
Hebrew scriptures (usually via a Greek translation thereof, the
Septuagint), took them out of context and twisted them to make it
appear that they were "prophecies" of Jesus. They didn't "quote"
Jesus as doing the same; they wrote down, forty and more years later,
what they imagined Jesus had said. Jesus was not accompanied by a
stenographer or a reporter with a tape recorder. The gospel writers
were copying out of the Jewish Bible as they made up their stories."

--Ralph Nielsen