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Death Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
- The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point…
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
- There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
- ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the…
- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed,…
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second,…
- Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or…
- It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -…
- Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under…
- Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
- The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims,…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden