Teddy > Teddy's Quotes

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.”
― Ricky Gervais

“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”
― Ricky Gervais

“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.”
― Ricky Gervais

“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
― Ricky Gervais

“A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid.”
― Ricky Gervais

“As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.”
― Ricky Gervais

“The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.”
― Ricky Gervais

“You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, "I did that.”
― Ricky Gervais

“If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.”
― Ricky Gervais, Office, the Scripts

“Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse :)”
― Ricky Gervais

“My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.”
― Ricky Gervais

“… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
― Ricky Gervais

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How fucking good is that? He's brilliant.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.”
― Ricky Gervais

“Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
― Ricky Gervais

“Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.”
― Ricky Gervais

“No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.”
― Ricky Gervais

“You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.”
― Ricky Gervais

“If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.”
― Ricky Gervais

“It’s better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. Ricky Gervais”
― Ricky Gervais

“Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.”
― Ricky Gervais

“You can't censor stupidity.”
― Ricky Gervais

“I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.”
― Ricky Gervais