"A native speaker of English who has never……" — Richard Dawkins
"A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins has 530 quotes on this site.
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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More Barbarian Quotes
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one of 66 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other…
— Alexander the Great
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on…
— John Shelby Spong
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his…
— Lord Acton
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really…
— William Dean Howells
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
— Garet Garrett
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the…
— Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is…
— William Gilmore Simms
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