Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn,… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity. However I'm unwilling simply to repeat the old arguments of the past when, in fact, God is a moving target and is taking all sorts of new… — Phillip Adams Copy Share
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
