It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn’t so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
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.
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.