To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

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 ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

A key to manifestation is that when the doors of opportunity open, you have to walk through them.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

I think that stereoscopic 3D will have to continue to develop. It's still quite archaic because of the glasses you have to wear.