I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.

See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.