People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

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.

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?