Author of quotes: Mark TWAIN. Page 1

The power that can make a person forget and betray a childhood friend will naturally be omnipotent over people who have in the foreground the question of their daily bread - the question of life and death, and for whom neither friendship nor love plays any role in all this, no sense of honor.

It is not enough for a person to be full; it is necessary that he had a mind and a heart. I will try to remember this well, so that this lesson will not be wasted either for me or for my people. Only learning ennobles a person and makes him kind and merciful.

Is it medicine, or just a way to feed on human ignorance?

Courage is about resisting fear and controlling fear, not the absence of fear.

I have known many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The worst loneliness is when a person is uncomfortable with himself.

Is there a father who would want to torture your baby with stomach cramps undeserved, unmerited anguish of teething, and then the mumps, measles, scarlet fever and thousands of other torture, invented for innocent little creatures? And then, from youth to the grave, would torment him countless desyatitysyachnye penalties for any violation of the law, both intentional and accidental? With a fine sarcasm we ennoble God with the title of father - and yet we know perfectly well that, getting us into the hands of the father in his spirit, we would be immediately hanged him.

History shows that religion we do not progress, but regress. This, however, it doesn't matter: whatever it was, will definitely be a new God and a new religion. They will be presented to the population of the earth and taken them under pressure the only arguments with which managed to convince any nation to adopt Christianity or any other religion, unless it was the religion of their fathers: the Bible, sword, fire, and axe.

Do I think that the Christian religion will exist forever? I have no reason to think so. Prior to failure the world has known thousands of religions. They are all dead. <...> No, I believe that Christianity and its God, are not exceptions to the General rule. They, in turn, should disappear and make room for another God, and even more stupid religion.

There is nothing so absurd or so unlikely that the average person could not believe it.

Much advanced to the tolerance of mankind for the time elapsed between slaughter of the Albigenses and these Jewish pogroms in tsarist Russia? Anyway, between them, of course, there is one difference. Royal carnage far surpassed the ancient and atrocities, and refined cruelty. Can you notice any progress between the Bartholomew's night of these riots? Yes, the difference is that the Russian black hundreds-Christians in 1906, and their king came to such a bloodthirsty and animal cruelty, which never dreamed their uncouth brethren, who lived 335 years ago.

The priests and the optimists like to preach that humanity is continuously moving forward to perfection. As usual, they do not support their opinion with statistics. It is the General rule the priests and the optimists too.

The Scriptures definitely have the same characteristic drawbacks. All of them are just pathetic poverty of imagination. It catches the eye first. The second drawback is that each without the slightest on the right claim to originality. Every extensively borrows from previous without reference to the source, which, of course, is a dishonest act. Each in turn assigns the decayed previous props and ingenuous confidence, trying to give his most recent and final revelation, just received from heaven.

Our religion is a horrible religion. In the seas of innocent blood that was spilled, could without interference to accommodate all the navies of the world.