Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
- Henry Louis Mencken
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- Henry Louis Mencken
Hitchens in an interview about his book on Mother Teresa.
It's either consciously or subconsciously assumed that a person of the cloth actually has better morals. There's precious little evidence of this; there's a great deal of evidence to the contrary, in fact.
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hat tip Linda Lin
Some good science/love quotes:"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."â P. L. Berger
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."â Henry Louis Mencken
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we…
This is far too familiar.
And they say atheists have no morals. Isn't it proof enough of my restraint that not once in my life have I ever throttled a creationist?