Quotes - Jay Edwards (Norman, OK) Showing 1-15 of 15

#1

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

tags: alternative-medicine, humor, pseudoscience, quackery, scepticism

#2

“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

tags: criticism, freedom-of-thought, idea, ideology, offended, religion, rushdie, sacred, satire

52 likes

#3

“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

tags: christianity, humor, religion

657 likes

#4

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

tags: humor, religion

1287 likes

#5

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

tags: absurd, organized-religion, paradox, religion

1097 likes

#6

“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

tags: absurd, humor, thanksgiving

630 likes

#7

“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

tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion

624 likes

#8

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

525 likes

#9

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

tags: absurd, good-questions

307 likes

#10

“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
― Jon Stewart

tags: inspirational-life

218 likes

#11

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

239 likes

#12

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

tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex

2355 likes

#13

“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

tags: christmas, life, religion

679 likes

#14

“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

tags: freedom, liberty

770 likes

#15

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

tags: americans, intellectuals

67 likes

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