Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the skies of Manhattan. Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act of blind fai...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Political activists are more inclined, though, to heed an observation from Richard Nixon...

Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse than they killef jesus, but nobody even cares; nobo...

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.