If only Christians fought like this for refugees. Imagine if the Coalition’s big men of faith threatened to tear down their own government unless it brings home the wretches we’ve imprisoned in the Pacific. Surely there couldn’t be a greater service for Christ? Or what about crossing the floor for the poor, the homeless, for battered wives and illiterate Aboriginal kids. No. What excites these Christian warriors is beating up on gays. I’ve watched it all my life.
David Marr
September 14, 2017
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
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
September 4, 2017
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 31, 2017
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 25, 2017
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
July 18, 2017
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 9, 2017
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
July 2, 2017
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 24, 2017
You know why conservatives hammer those on benefits so mercilessly? It is because they think those people are like them; venal, greedy and duplicitous.
