"This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own."

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I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy.

— Paul Krugman