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  • #1
    Tim Minchin
    “You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
    Tim Minchin

  • #2
    Salman Rushdie
    “The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
    Salman Rushdie

  • #3
    Jon   Stewart
    “Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #4
    Jon   Stewart
    “Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #5
    Jon   Stewart
    “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #6
    Jon   Stewart
    “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #7
    Jon   Stewart
    “You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #8
    Jon   Stewart
    “If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
    Jon Stewart

  • #9
    Jon   Stewart
    “If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?”
    Jon Stewart

  • #10
    Jon   Stewart
    “I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
    Jon Stewart

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    George Carlin
    “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
    George Carlin

  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “CALVIN:
    This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
    If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
    And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
    HOBBES:
    I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
    CALVIN:
    Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #14
    James Baldwin
    “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
    James Baldwin

  • #15
    Viet Thanh Nguyen
    “Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.”
    Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer



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