I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

When we face every challenge with optimism and learn to fail with our heads up, a great attitude is always success, no matter the outcome.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do... which changes what you get.

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.