If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
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