Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think. . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
What yells out at the US public. . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.