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The gods are dead. Long live the Superman!
Just as we no longer need a moral code, neither do we need religion
Hope is the worst of all evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
- Nietzsche
When the fork is supported by two pillars, With six half-horns and six open scissors: The very potent Lord, heir to the toads, Will then subjugate to himself the entire world.
- Nostradamus
Religion is the dream of the human mind
- Ludwig Feuerbach
I want to increase the minds freedom from the chains of religion
- Karl Marx
Dare to know. Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
-Immanuel Kant
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me . . . This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to a First Cause.
- Charles Darwin
Crime will be virtually abolished before 1950
- National Education Association in the United States 1931
If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost as little as air.
- John Langdon-Davies, British 1936.
Many people will live to be 150. Prisons will decline and divorce will be considered unnecessary. The government will have grown more simple, as true greatness tends always toward simplicity,
- 74 social commentators at the Chicago Worlds Fair 1893 - looking ahead 100 years to 1993,
The war to end the wars
- President Woodrow Wilson about World War I
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