book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Theocracy

In theocracy, respect for authority and not the force of logic is the source and pinnacle of wisdom. The more lofty is the authority, the more credible it becomes.
In theocracy, as in any regimented society, what is not forbidden is compulsory.
The orthodox of every society are censors of change.
If you sow the wind of ignorance, you will reap the whirlwind of fanaticism.
Overpopulated orthodox societies practice brain control, instead of birth control.
A worst nightmare than the lunatics controlling an asylum, is the prospect of clerics governing a country.
Whom God wishes to be a humbug, He makes him a cleric.
Whom God wishes to be a parasite, He makes him a saint.
The prudent way to survive in a repressive orthodox society, where religious fanaticism is constitutionally sanctioned and officially encouraged, is to commit hara-kiri of your conscience and merely exist by seeing nothing, feeling nothing, and being nothing. Safety in such a society lies in intellectual stupor, the waste of a lifetime.
The best answer of a cleric is invocation of holy wrath in the face of reasoned argument.
A truly secular state secures the good of its people by keeping demons of religious discord and mischief in chains, while a theocratic state lets loose all those demons on its people.
An orthodox has his mind made up for him centuries ago.
For orthodox fanatics, ignorance is preferable to secular knowledge for controlling the minds of the young
Myopic clerics of the mosques and madrassahs with their hordes of innocent, ignorant and minor charges are the backbone of fundamentalism in the Muslim world.
Give them your orphans, poor and unwanted and the terrorists will make them fanatic killers in the name of jihad.
When dogma crucifies enquiry and criticism, civilizations ossifyIn a theocratic state, the half-witted lead the dim-witted.
In the wasteland of religious fanaticism, expression of liberal thinking is as scarce as desert rain.
The basis of popularity of radical Islamic clerics among the uneducated and gullible masses is their hatred and vociferous denouncement of all the things Western, excepting the ubiquitous machines, such as loudspeakers, which assist them to propagate their shrieks to the mouthless millions.
Thinking is a subversive activity and the reason why the clerics put strenuous emphasis on the infallibility and pre-eminence of the precedent in problem solutions to avoid exposure of the antiquated precepts to critical analysis.
The society stagnates in which people are compelled to think and act alike in compliance to the religious fiats backed by the official power of theocracy.
All fanatics are not clergy, but all clergy are fanatics.

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