The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

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.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.