You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can’t be English American. Why not?
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.
I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
I vote and I do jury duty.
I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.
I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.