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Problem Quotes by Sam Harris
- To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms.…
- Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.…
- Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued…
- Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates…
- We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations…
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word…
- If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are…
- For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the…
- The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could…
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
- The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse…
- As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the…
- The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
- The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people… — Roseanne Barr
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- There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't… — Jo Brand