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There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam.

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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

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Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.

Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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