Take the risk of thinking for yourself

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.

A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you've gone off the deep end.

On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.