« All Human Misery Quotes
·
Sam Harris's Page
Human Misery Quotes by Sam Harris
1 Human Misery quote by Sam Harris
More Quotes by Sam Harris
Sam Harris has 146 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
-
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
-
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
-
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
-
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
-
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
-
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
-
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
-
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
-
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
-
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
-
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
See all 146 quotes by Sam Harris »
More Human Misery Quotes
Popular Human Misery quotes from across the collection:
-
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in…
— John Howard Griffin
-
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
-
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in…
— Benjamin Rush
-
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before…
— George H. Smith
-
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
-
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish…
— John F. Kennedy
-
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I…
— Daniel Defoe
-
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes…
— Neal A. Maxwell
-
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
— Norman Borlaug
-
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of…
— Saul Leiter
-
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming…
— Kurt Vonnegut
-
Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our…
— Jared Diamond
See all Human Misery Quotes »
Browse Sam Harris Quotes by Category