"People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs."

--

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

A.C. Grayling

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
“Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)”
“When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.”
“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”

Source : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2016). “The Manifesto of Futurism”, p.9, Passerino Editore
“I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.”
“The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!”

Source : Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.
“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!”

You may also like:

Bertrand Russell
Philosopher
Christopher Hitchens
Author
Daniel Dennett
Philosopher
Matthew Chapman
Journalist
Polly Toynbee
Journalist
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Roger Scruton
Philosopher
Sam Harris
Author
Tim Crane
Philosopher