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- [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of…
- All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
- The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
- Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
- Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are…
- People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this…
- The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than…
- Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
- Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
- The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I…
- Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable…
- People like to trace their ancestry.
- People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have…
- 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…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with…
- Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's…
- Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."
- A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
- Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's…
- Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality -…
- We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle