Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea). — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism . — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/89f/richard-dawkins-115_absurd_it-is-an-absurd-law-section-295a-of-the_2936887.jpg)
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![“[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/530/richard-dawkins-115_admitting_r-eductionism-is-one-of-those-things-lik_2689016.jpg)
