Quotes - Page L
Lias, Andrew
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that
is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
Lincoln, Abraham
"When I do good I feel good; when I do bad I feel bad; and
that's my religion."
Lindsey, Ben N. & Evans, Wainwright
"The churches used to win their arguments against atheism,
agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismists, which
is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is
a God."
[The Revolt of Modern Youth, 1925]
Linnaeus, Carl, father of taxonomy
"I wish that someone would show me one character by which to place
humans and the apes in separate genera. I most assuredly know of none.
Had I called humans apes or vice versa I would have fallen under the
ban of the Ecclesiastics."
Long, Lazarus
"The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers
high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary,
sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and
immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how
a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings
of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up
a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that
the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it
is a lovely work if you can stomach it."
Time enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein