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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

Virtue Quotes

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Action Quotes

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

Stories Quotes

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word ‘Orwellian’ in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think.

As I’ve said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

Until the early middle years of the sixteenth century, when King Henry VIII began to quarrel with Rome about the dialectics of divorce and decapitation, a short and swift route to torture and death was the attempt to print the Bible in English. It’s.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

In one was, I suppose, I have been “in denial” for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can’t see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it’s all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

I vote and I do jury duty.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can’t be English American. Why not?

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don’t think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn’t Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can’t think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

It’s normally agreed that the question ‘How are you?’ doesn’t put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

The curse of Abraham continues to poison Hebron, but the religious warrant for blood sacrifice poisons our entire civilization.

The pluralism of religion is attributable to the fact that man created God and not the other way around. If you accept the posture that man makes gods, there is no mystery in the proliferation of gods and religions that has always existed in human society. If.

Allegiance is a powerful force in human affairs; it will not do to treat someone as a mental serf if he is convinced that his thralldom is honorable and voluntary. From.

The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection.

Only servility requires the realm of illusion.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a ‘first generation’ of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

Firsts Quotes

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy ‘legacy’ is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and “torch-passing” rhetoric in general.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Book Quotes

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of heaven, and those who suspect that the human race has nothing but the poor candle of reason by which to light its way.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

If you don’t state a clear preference, then your drink is like a bad game of poker or a hasty drug transaction: It is whatever the dealer says it is. Please do try to bear this in mind.

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama’s Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified ‘white’ candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

If people I’ve never met or don’t know say that what I’ve written or done or said means anything to them, then I’m happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

When mass rapes occurred in the course of aggressive war in Bangladesh and later in Bosnia, Mother Teresa in the first case and the Pope in the second made strenuous appeals to the victims not to abort the seed of the invader and the violator.

The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was ’perhaps.

Reading Quotes

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that “their griefs are transient.” American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are “mud people” because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing – they are not capable of summoning “blood in the face,” as the.

I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

How sad to be a woman – not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to comb this mighty hair; To be a woman and yet never know! Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say “I am a woman” all day long.