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 MAHERReligion, 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.
More Bill Maher Quotes
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I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.
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The thing I don’t understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who’s supposed to pretend they don’t want it?
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When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.
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Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.
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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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It’s very hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot.
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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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Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
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Death is nature’s way of killing you.
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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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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 Drug War is an addiction, really.
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I always compare marriage to communism. They’re both institutions that don’t conform to human nature, so you’re going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
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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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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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