I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.