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- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
- Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also…
- 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…
- If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply…
- I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness…
- Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it…
- 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…
- 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…
- The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State…
- ...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for…
- There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by…
- The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we…
- The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of…
More Views Quotes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Reality simply consists of different points of view. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann