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«Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Sin
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«Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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decreed
«The earth upon whom day and night jointly, black and bright, have been decreed, the broad earth covered and enveloped with rain, shall kindly place us into every pleasant abode!»
«After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.»
«Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.»
«The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Religion
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«Fate, show your force; ourselves we do not owe.What is decreed must be -- and be this so!»
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