I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.