
„I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
— Federico Fellini Italian filmmaker 1920 - 1993
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
Context: The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
A defense http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library005.html of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
— Simone de Beauvoir French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist 1908 - 1986
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
— Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996
— Michel Foucault French philosopher 1926 - 1984
Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Things I Do For You (credited to "The Jacksons")
— Douglas Adams English writer and humorist 1952 - 2001
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On the lightening of his skin.
— Christopher Reeve actor, director, producer, screenwriter 1952 - 2004
Context: It gives me a moral compass. I often refer to Abe Lincoln, who said, "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion." I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do. The Unitarian believes that God is good, and believes that God believes that man is good. Inherently. The Unitarian God is not a God of vengeance. And that is something I can appreciate.
On joining the Unitarian Universalist Association, in an interview with Reader's Digest (October 2004) http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Christopher_Reeve.html
— Joachim Peiper SS officer 1915 - 1976
Peiper on the Malmedy massacre, excerpted from A Traveler's Guide to the Battle for the German Frontier by Charles Whiting.