Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

Every error is truth abused.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.