If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
From Richard Dawkins
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
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