While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives. — 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
