Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
BILL MAHERThey’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.
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Denying racism is the new racism.
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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.
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Maybe a president who didn’t believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.
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I don’t understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.
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God knows life sucks. It’s right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, “I can’t take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me.”
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If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.
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The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.
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You know, there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time, husband!!!
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To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
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Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don’t pay attention.
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You can’t pray away global warming, and that’s the difference between religious people and sane people.
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People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They’re DEFINITELY GAY!!
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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.
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