We are told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are no doubt, but the best among the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, disobedient and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.
Oscar Wilde
October 14, 2018
Men become civilised, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Ambrose Bierce
September 30, 2018
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
George Bernard Shaw
September 17, 2018
Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have on advantage over them: we have their example before us.
Benjamin Carter Hett
July 1, 2018
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive, because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
Tony Benn
January 25, 2018
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
Victor J. Stenger
December 31, 2017
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
November 30, 2017
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
November 30, 2017
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
October 4, 2017
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
