If not now, when?

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
--Giacomo Casanova

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
--Ayn Rand

"I hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land."
-Frederick Douglass

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
-Frederick Douglass

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
 --H.L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
--H.L. Mencken

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
--H.L. Mencken

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
--Mark Twain

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
--Ambrose Bierce

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
--Ambrose Bierce

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