“The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and they have the right of free speech and the right without disclosure—all of this is through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision—to put as much money as they want into campaigns all over the country.”
― The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
― The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
“I shall define the God Hypothesis more defensibly: there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately designed and created the universe and everything in it, including us. This book will advocate an alternative view: any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“the third kind of thing we don’t think about—the things the thinking of which just plain scares us. The things the thinking of which would change everything.”
― Vamped
― Vamped
“the ends do not justify the means. That to sell your soul to save the world is not honorable, nor wise. The earth will continue to spin, my friends, mankind will always be split between love and anger, honor and shame, life and death. The scales may tip in favor of good or evil, but they will always, always swing back.”
― Skyrock
― Skyrock
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