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" No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Death

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Own

" Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. "

" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. "

" My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. "

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Death

" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. "

" Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. "

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. "

" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

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Odds

Die