The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
From Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
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