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.
BILL MAHERIf you believe that the world is going to come to an end – and perhaps any day now – does it not drain one’s motivation to improve life on earth while we’re here?
More Bill Maher Quotes
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Have you ever met a war you didn’t love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?
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Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in ‘Dancing with the Stars.’
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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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There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.
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One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.
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If it weren’t for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.
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To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
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Some people think I enjoy debate. I don’t. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.
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Hot women have to stop putting long paragraphs of text on their bodies. I know you think it’s sexy but one thing that men never think is, “Gee, you know what would make this sex better? Having something to read.”
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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