"The cynic about human nature might say that……" — Richard Dawkins
"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 The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric."
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Richard Dawkins
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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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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the…
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It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens.…
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Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
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We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the…
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The death sentence is a barbaric act.
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Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind…
— Winston Churchill
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