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 MAHERDon’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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Like it or not, we’re still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.
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I feel like I’m wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.
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Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.
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Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.
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Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It’s kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald’s and not eat the fries on the way home.
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The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They’re supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.
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It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.
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I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.
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Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
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Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.
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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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They’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.
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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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In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.
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Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!
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