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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

— Penn Jillette I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)

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Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know."

God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011)

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. … God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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