So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.

There was a time when an unbeliever, open and pronounced, was a wonder. At that time the church had great power; it could retaliate; it could destroy. The church abandoned the stake only when too many men objected to being burned.

But those who are incapable of
pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.
A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces — laying bare
the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with
forceps — would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women
for the gratification of his curiosity.