“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.”

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.

Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

I’ll admit I’m not perfect I’m like an angel fallen from grace. I’ve been a sinner and a saint.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I admit that I’m rich & I’m lit.

Maybe admitting you need a break will give someone else the space to take one too.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

I can admit and say that I have feelings.