John Scalzi Quote

There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the...

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we f...

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring the on. The god of guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-r...

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

they want me to be just like them but they want to be just like them

[H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?[