I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
There are also people who say it’s God’s curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I’ve used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.
If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I’m still waiting to hear what their point is.
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world’s monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.
It’s amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I’m surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don’t take more advantage of this relief.
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.
This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism .