64 Quotes by Rodrigue Tremblay
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The system of religions has played a central role in the evolution of the human species. It just happens that our ancestors invented the system of religions to solidify the cohesion of their communities and… to justify the killing of their enemies.
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Cemeteries are full of people with large pension funds.
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Some economists sometimes prefer something extremely precise, which is false, to another one less precise, which is true.
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A constitution is only good as long as the people in power [politicians, judges, etc.], believe in its principles. If people in power no longer believe in its principles, they will find a way to change it or circumvent it. This is major lesson of the history of democracy: democracies do die and they are often replaced by tyrannies.
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For a people to be free, it must first prove that it deserves it.
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Wars are cruel gimmicks designed to enrich the few and impoverish the many.
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[In economics], we have seen the emergence of a truly secular cult according to which the market is a kind of omniscient god, omnipotent and infallible, which could serve as the only collective instrument for achieving the common good and the collective interest, and that in all circumstances. It has been claimed, despite the recurrent dramatic collapses of financial markets, and some still claim that there is practically no economic problem that markets, left alone, cannot solve on their own.
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In the long run, it is much better for a political party to be in the minority, but keeping a clear sense of what it wants to accomplish, than to be in the majority while being paralyzed by irreconcilable dissentions and condemned to do nothing.
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No other organizations, (except perhaps an army), but organized religions can mobilize large groups of people into congregations and turn them into mind-numbed automatons, all too ready to follow orders.
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