"Religion is the root of quite a lot…" — Richard Dawkins

"Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil."

— Richard Dawkins

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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins has 530 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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