Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
September 4, 2017
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
Christopher Hitchens
September 4, 2017
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Johanna 'Hannah' Arendt
July 25, 2017
We are all complicit in anthropogenic climate change and that is why denial of it is so popular, because denialism is a way to avoid uncomfortable truths.
John Laurie
July 2, 2017
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
June 24, 2017
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
June 10, 2017
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and very nearly zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
June 4, 2017
There can be no truce between science and religion.
J.B.S. Haldane
June 4, 2017
Flags and anthems are unimportant. They are just symbols. You need to respect and fight for democratic institutions, or you will lose everything, flags and anthems included.
John Laurie
May 25, 2017
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
