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  • I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

    Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au
  • It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.

    Jesus   Atheism   Purpose  
  • Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books
  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books
  • All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

    Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2
  • Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

    Atheist   Lying   Believe  
  • No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

    Sight   Two   Suffering  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  • There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

    Simple   Self   Perfect  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books
  • The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

    People   Together   Want  
  • No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.

    Law   World   Definitions  
  • The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

  • Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

    Money   Purpose   Reason  
  • Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

    War   Army   Soldier  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

    Blessed   Law   Ideas  
    Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.43, Harper Collins
  • So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

    Pain   Evil   Suffering  
    John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK
  • All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

    John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

    Hate   Mouths   Invention  
  • It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

    John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Riley (1998). “Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA
  • All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

    Book   Eye   Heart  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
  • Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

    Fog   Mystery   Invention  
    Thomas Paine (1818). “The theological works of Thomas Paine”, p.46
  • Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

    Oliver Sacks (2011). “The Mind's Eye”, p.137, Pan Macmillan
  • Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

    Loss   Evil   Inheritance  
    Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
  • Money is only a human invention.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

    Christian   Church   Use  
    "The Age of Reason". Book by Thomas Paine, 1794.
  • Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

    Book   Writing   People  
    "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.
  • Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.

    Doctors   Feet   Joy  
  • We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

    Love   Happiness   Two  
    "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.
  • I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

    "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.
  • When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

    Atheist   Prayer   Book  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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