There either is a god or there is not; there is a ‘design’ or not.
There is no reason at all why there aren’t enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
I’m dying, but so are you.
Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .
The atheist proposition is the following – most of the time – it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.
Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.
No child’s behind left.
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.
Religion gets its morality from us. We don’t get our morality from religion.
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.’ Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
It’s much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don’t know quite why this is true but it just is. Don’t ever be responsible for it.
It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.