“We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.”
Nec vero superstitione tollenda religio tollitur.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, chapter LXXII, sec. 148
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
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