E. M. Forster Quotes About Atheism
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
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