Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

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.

Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it happen!

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.