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In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.
I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.