Peter B. Lockhart > Quotes

“Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: “The majority is always wrong.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“In boxing, to avoid being punched, you can block, parry, slip, sidestep,
or get out of the ring. It works exactly the same, in stock market
investment.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“But that pain is then inflicted onto other people, often many other people, all because we lack the courage to stand up and be accountable for all the things both good and bad, we have done in our lives. So by lying, that pain, rather than staying where it belongs, with the person who has done something wrong, is handed out to the innocent. To be a liar therefore is to be a coward.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power in the United States of America, who with their poison words of deceit, have in the name of free enterprise and prosperity, by the destruction of regulations put into place after the last Depression, have repeated history with this one.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The United States does nothing about the gross morbid obesity, and nothing about the gross morbid stupidity, of its citizens.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“The major flaw with human beings is that despite all our cleverness and ingenuity we both tell and believe lies.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The way I see it right now, the United States of America has destroyed itself, or is destroying itself from within, thus making it vulnerable to being conquered from without. The United
States of America is corrupt, as it has no rule of law, and little or no prudential regulation and supervision. The Global Financial Crisis, make no mistake about it, is a global Depression even worse, than the Great Depression of the 1930s, and was caused by the same thing – rampant corruption, and it will result in the same thing – World War.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“In the struggle between fantasy and reality, fantasy may win some battles, but eventually, and in every case, reality always wins the war.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“Therefore I call a spade a spade, and not a flat bladed instrument for the redistribution of granular matter.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“Sometimes I want to walk into a Christian Church, and or a Jewish Synagogue, and or a Muslim Mosque, and yell at the top of my lungs – “You people are all Crazy!”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“Believing without evidence is politely called religion, but more accurately called delusion.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“If you don't go to bed at night with your bones aching from wanting it, you don't really want it. When your bones ache from wanting something, nothing and nobody will stop you getting it.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The truth about people does not lie in what they say but what they do.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“However in recent times, the US and the whole world has been hit by a
financial Tsunami, because of beliefs which are now, to everyone in
hindsight, blatantly and obviously absurd.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“There are over 100 Avestan words in the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments, and Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians, only ever used by Zoroastrians in prayer and worship.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“So there is only one way for sacred Zoroastrian words, which are words only ever used by Zoroastrians in prayer and worship, to get into the Bible, and are even spoken by Jesus himself, (according to the story) as he was dying on the cross. And here is the Kryptonite – the Zoroastrians put those words there. There is no other way.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“I asked at my local cinema, if they were going to show Anna Karenina, they said no, but they had Anaconda.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“MacDonald’s cannot be sued because of
the toxic and deadly garbage they peddle to people to eat. What the US Government has done is give these peddlers of poison a license to kill like James Bond, but not with a gun, with a Hamburger.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The China Bubble is the biggest
bubble in history, and the bigger the bubble, the bigger the bust. There
will be blood in the streets, and no doubt about it. Even whole countries
will go broke.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“everything we own will one day belong to someone else, but everything we are, is ours forever.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“The USA has neither the wisdom to stop
putting junk food into its children’s bodies, nor junk education into it's
children's minds. Such a nation lacking in such real wisdom, must rapidly
make some radical changes or go to oblivion.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“Agree with me, or disagree with me, that is your choice. But I will say this to you, and if nothing else, take this with you: Question everything. Accept nothing without evidence or proof.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“China is now, without doubt, the Mother of all Bubbles, and it will soon
be the mother of all economic disasters when that bubble bursts, bringing
global economic calamity of unprecedented proportions, to unprecedented
numbers of people, all around the world.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“the vast majority of Christians have not, and do not ever, read the Bible. They just read tiny little bits of it, if that, and accept the whole concept of their religion, without any thought at all.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“It's interesting how Christians today completely ignore the four clear verses of Jesus saying his message is for Jews only, and they prefer to stick to the verse that justifies their religion, despite the fact they are not Jewish.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“one can in fact trust a four hundred pound male gorilla, before one can ever trust a Roman Catholic priest”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

“There will be a lot of young men returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have seen terrible things, and who know all about the “loved and lost”, and they will be acting out their grief with reckless behaviour. When I see broken hearted young men, abusing alcohol and angry and trying to make sense of the senseless, I know and understand from my own experiences, something of what they have gone through.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

“A good person hates lies. A bad person hates the truth.”
― Peter B. Lockhart