Pacifier

I guess your roommate read terry pratchett?

originally Milton's "Paradise Lost"

I could list a lot of quotes, but I limit myself:

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
-Napoleon Bonaparte-

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
-George Bernard Shaw-

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei-

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
-Socrates-

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
-Albert Einstein-

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-Chinese Proverb-

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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein