L-O Quotes

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President, guided the US through five years of civil war and issued the Emancipation Proclamation to outlaw slavery in the United States.

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."

"...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man--this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal." Speech, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858

John Locke
(1632-1704) Oxford philosopher, scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist

"I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason." An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900) German philosopher, challenged the foundations of traditional morality and christianity

"Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy." Human, all too Human

"Remedium amoris.-- The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return." Daybreak

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to imaginary things." Human, all too Human

"Belief means not wanting to know what is true." The Anti-Christ

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial." The Gay Science: 126

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." The Dawn (1881)

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son." The Anti-Christ