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 31, 2017 0 People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. Bill Clinton
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
July 18, 2017 0 If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
July 9, 2017 0 The problem isn’t that he [Trump] does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something. George F. Will
July 2, 2017 0 We are all complicit in anthropogenic climate change and that is why denial of it is so popular, because denialism is a way to avoid uncomfortable truths. John Laurie
June 24, 2017 0 My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
June 15, 2017 0 You know why conservatives hammer those on benefits so mercilessly? It is because they think those people are like them; venal, greedy and duplicitous. John Laurie
June 10, 2017 0 The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken
June 4, 2017 0 The conflict between religion and science is inherent and very nearly zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. Sam Harris
