"When I am dying, I should like my……" — Richard Dawkins

"When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix."

— 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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More Anaesthetic Quotes

This quote is filed under Anaesthetic Quotes, one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your… — D. H. Lawrence
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. — Philip Larkin
A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree… — John Harvey Kellogg
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep… — N.D. Wilson
When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people… — John Pilger
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because… — Hakim
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.… — Richard Dawkins
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde

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