I am not an animal! I am a human being!
I’m just a guy with a website. Here are some other things I didn’t say, but wish I had:
“The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has — from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”
-Christopher Hitchens
“There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of ‘little guy’ or ‘silent majority’ rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.”
-Christopher Hitchens
“You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth, like the fact that there’s a bigot and a racist in every living room on every street corner in this country.”
-George Carlin
“I don’t like words that hide the truth. I don’t like words that conceal reality. I don’t like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation.”
-George Carlin
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive…but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
-Mark Twain
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
-Richard Dawkins
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