So, since I started this list, I came across some more quotes, and I didn't want them getting lost. Enjoy.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there
always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism
has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural
life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is
just as good as your knowledge.”
--Isaac Asimov
Can priests bless stuff other than water? I just think “holy guacamole” should mean
something.
--@BootsMcGoot
An extra hour in 2024 is like a free bonus track on a Yoko
Ono album.
--Ruth Buzzi
My life got better when I realized I didn’t have to be
nice. Nice got me ran over, stressed
out, and disrespected. I’m not nice. I’m a good person. There’s a difference.
--@cactustate
If you can’t explain something to a first-year student, then
you haven’t really understood.
--Richard Feynman
Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist.
--Stephen
Fry
I said everything was okie dokie artichokie, but to be honest
it’s been extra horrendous asparagus.
--@geekysteven
As I hurtled through space, one though kept crossing my mind…
every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
--John Glenn
An early objection I had with Christianity at school was
being told I was part of a flock. Shepherds
don’t just look after sheep because they like them! They either want to fleece them, fuck them,
or eat them!
--Christopher Hitchens
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child
had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
--Christopher Hitchens
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for
the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
--Christopher Hitchens
One must state it plainly.
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody had the
smallest idea what was going on.
--Christopher Hitchens
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can
be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
--Christopher Hitchens
What is more plausible?
That God impregnated a girl in the Middle East or that a Jewish girl
lied to her betrothed about how she got pregnant?
--Christopher Hitchens
That’s the problem with gods; their pleasure and their wrath
often look the same.
--@madmaudlingoes
As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain
folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will
be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.
--H.L. Menken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
The March to Dispel Negative Perceptions of Clowns is still happening
this Sunday at dusk, right at the edge of the woods near the abandoned children’s
hospital. The calliope we rented is out
of tune but we’re going to go ahead and play it anyway. Come join us! Join. Us.
--Patton Oswalt
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I
hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that
there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels,
and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that
the Pope is a dangerous bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is
a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision. I accuse the Christian god of murder by allowing
the Holocaust to take place – not to mention the “ethnic cleansing” presently
being performed by Christians in our world – and I condemn and vilify this mythical
deity for encouraging racial prejudice and commanding the degradation of women.
--James Randi
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with
flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the
mind of another person, maybe someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking
clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human
inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant
epochs. Books break the shackles of
time. A book is proof that humans are
capable of working magic.
--Carl Sagan
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count. I have only
slipped away into the next room. Nothing
has happened. Everything remains exactly
as it was. I am I, and you are you, and
the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other; that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name, Speak of me in the easy way which you always
used. Put no difference into your
tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or
sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at
the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the
ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means
all that it ever meant. It is the same
as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken
continuity. What is this death but a
negligible accident? Why should I be out
of mind because I am out of sight? I am
but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near. Just round the
corner. All is well.
--Henry Scott-Holland
Dreams save us.
Dreams lift us up and transform us into something better. And on my soul, I swear that until my dream
of a world where dignity, honor, and justice are the reality we all share, I’ll
never stop fighting. Ever.
--Superman
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.
--Rabbi Tarfon
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t
we consider it his duty to escape?... If
we value freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our
plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your
intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your
reason in the conduct of your life. In
days gone by, there were people who said to us, “You believe in
incomprehensible, contradictory, and impossible things because we have
commanded you to; now then, commit unjust acts because we likewise order you to
do so.” Nothing could be more
convincing. Certainly anyone who has the
power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
--Voltaire – Questions on Miracles (11th Letter), 1965
As a dwarf, I feel like a disappointment because I never
learned to forge.
--Brad Williams
Brave enough to get tattooed, too scared to make a phone
call.
Well, aren’t we just two scoops of grumpy in a bowl full of
bitchy this morning.
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