"My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person. My vision of a real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, not of nations, not of races, but only of individuals. " - Osho
"Love should be accepted as one of the most fundamental human rights, and all societies have destroyed it. They have destroyed it by creating marriage. Marriage is a false substitute for love." - Osho
"Civilization is the progress toward a
society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws
of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
-
Ayn Rand
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.” – Ayn Rand.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident" - Arthur Schopenhauer
"There is no absurdity so palpable but
that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate
it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great
solemnity." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Nobody should be conditioned from childhood about any religion, any philosophy, any theology, because you are destroying his freedom of search. Help him to be strong enough to doubt, to be skeptical about all that is believed all around him." - Osho
"If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. The most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence." - Richard Dawkins
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." - Richard Dawkins
"As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers" - Richard Dawkins
"The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith.' - Richard Dawkins
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." - Richard Dawkins
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins
"Inquiry is difficult; belief is cheap. But truth is not cheap; truth is the most valuable thing in the world." - Osho
"Great intellectuals in the West have committed suicide or gone mad. In fact it has become almost a criterion: if you don't go mad or you don't commit suicide you are not much of an intellectual! The greatest intellectuals have gone mad, have suffered suicide, because they could not find how to live without God. Without heaven and hell, how to live? They suddenly saw their future was complete darkness, death. To live for death...? Without God they lost all reason for living." - Osho
"A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life." - Alexander Lowen
"Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings" - Alexander Lowen
"Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation" - Alexandre Lowen
“Not until man acknowledges that he is fundamentally an animal, will he be able to create a genuine culture.” - Wilhelm Reich.
"It is so strange to read the holy scriptures. They look such rubbish that even newspapers seem to be more important." - Osho
"The misery that you see all over the earth is created by your religions. Once you make a man feel guilty he cannot enjoy life, he cannot rejoice in existence. You have cut his roots, the very roots that nourish your joy, your blissfulness." - Osho
"Democracy has failed. For every post,
the person who is chosen should be chosen by experts. The health minister
should be chosen by all the doctors, the surgeons, the medical experts, the
scientists who are working in the medical field." - Osho
"You honest men are such a problem and such a headache. But we knew you'd slip sooner or later - and this is just what we wanted ... Did you really think we want those laws observed? We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." – Ayn Rand.
“Money is your means of survival. The verdict
you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce
upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's
stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability
deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers
your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's
worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you,
but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream
that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect?
Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of
your hatred of money?”
- Ayn Rand.