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The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all …

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things à bad language and whatever à it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. … There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.” George Carlin
March 12, 2004

Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to …

Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully, and always with a sense of our own limitations.If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it. Jean Riley Anderson