“Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.”

I feel like I’m wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

When I see the toothless guy, as a liberal, what I say is, ‘I want to help you get teeth.’ Why does that make me an a**hole?

Just honest. To me, being ‘politically incorrect’ means the opposite of being political — which means to spin everything. That’s all it’s ever meant to me. It’s never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The “Power of One” is a slogan – not a goal.

Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

Funny that all of Nixon’s crimes – anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars – are all legal now. Discuss.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn’t know a game is going on?

Death is nature’s way of killing you.

In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.

You can always tell when Obama’s negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he’s missing his watch and his lunch money.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice?

Progress requires change.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.