Quote of the Day for 2016-07-30

"All art, which strove to make the sensations of a moment soul-satisfying, was dimly felt to be irreligious. For art performed what religion only promised."

— James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) The Cream of the Jest, chapter 26 (1917)

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse (1891)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-02

"The charity of the Gospel must extend to all religions and the French hospitality to all people."

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) Les Vœux d’un Solitaire (1790)

Members of Femen protesting a rally of Marine Le Pen's National Front party in Paris (May 1, 2015) Photograph by Thomas Samson

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-01

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

— Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) The True Believer, part 1, section 9

Ku Klux Klan rally near Washington D.C., National Photo Company (circa 1921)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-15

"I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support."

— John Buchan (1875-1940) Speech to the The Law Society of Upper Canada, February 21, 1936

Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro with Phil Witte (June 2, 2007)

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-26

"A cult is a religion with no political power."

— Tom Wolfe (1931-    ) "Tom Wolfe's Seventies," Esquire, December 1979, page 39

Jim Jones, cult leader of the Peoples Temple, at an I-Hotel evictions protest in San Francisco (January 1977)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-02

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand stout country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."

— William Hazlitt (1778-1830) "On Prejudice," Sketches and Essays

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