Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark TwainTags: mark-twain
Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck. The United States of Tom looks at misery and says: Hey, I didn't do it. It looks at inequity and says: All my life I have busted my butt to get where I am, so don't come crying to me. Tom likes kings, codified nobility, unquestioned privilege. Huck likes people, fair play, spreading the truck around. Whereas Tom knows, Huck wonders. Whereas Huck hopes, Tom presumes. Whereas Huck cares, Tom denies. These two parts of the American Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the nation, and come to think of it, these two parts of the World Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the world, and the hope of the nation and of the world is to embrace the Huck part and send the Tom part back up the river, where it belongs.
George SaundersTags: equality america privilege americans mark-twain american-character american-psyche huck-finn tom-sawyer
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark TwainTags: mark-twain forbidden-things samuel-clemmons
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Mark TwainTags: politics conservatism twain mark-twain
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
Mark TwainTags: humor sorrow mark-twain
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
Mark TwainTags: religion mark-twain
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Mark TwainTags: twain mark-twain huck-finn
Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s no harm in saying you’re an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don’t believe necessarily that there’s a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I’m in good company … Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It’s not like I’m not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world.
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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
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