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 MAHERIf you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
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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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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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If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
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The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
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We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.
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What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don’t call him stupid because they don’t agree with you politically.
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It’s not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That’s predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
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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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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?
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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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Only a Bush could answer a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question two different ways and be wrong both times.
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Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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The “Power of One” is a slogan–not a goal.
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Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake – you know, to send the right message to kids.
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