July 1, 2018 0 Few Germans in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or the death marches of the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future. We who come later have on advantage over them: we have their example before us. Benjamin Carter Hett
January 25, 2018 0 The way a government treats refugees is very instructive, because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it. Tony Benn
December 31, 2017 0 Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. Victor J. Stenger
November 30, 2017 0 Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
November 30, 2017 0 Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal
October 4, 2017 0 When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
September 27, 2017 0 Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
September 4, 2017 0 Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein
September 4, 2017 0 Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. Christopher Hitchens
July 25, 2017 0 The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. Johanna 'Hannah' Arendt
