It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

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.

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

It is proven that cars can affect your health.

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I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.