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On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths chafing
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“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
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“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― The Age of Reason
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
― The Age of Reason
“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
― Gulliver's Travels
― Gulliver's Travels
“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
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“Hemen her yerde ve hele ilim ve irfanın zayıf bulunduğu memleketlerde hile, aldatmacayla daha çok iş görülür. Güya bütün insanlık yalanı, dolanı ortadan kovarak adalet ve hakikati en saygın makama geçirmek için uğraşıyor. Maazallah böyle bir felaket gerçekleşirse hep siyasetler, ticaretler, işlemler durur. Bütün dünya altüst olur. En akıllılarımız her gün aldanıyorlar. En akılsızlarımız her gün aldatıyorlar. Hepimiz daima aldanıyoruz, fakat fırsat düştükçe aldatıyoruz. Bu suretle geçim dengesini biraz düzeltebiliyoruz... Aldanıp da aldatamayanlar... İşte aç kalan güruh bu zavallılardır.”
― Efsuncu Baba
― Efsuncu Baba
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