Richard Dawkins on children
Richard Dawkins104 quotes“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda MeirGolda Meir The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
Irving BerlinIrving Berlin When I was a kid, I’d spray paint my hair, cut clothes up.
Rita OraRita Ora If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
Brennan ManningBrennan Manning Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
Dwight L. MoodyDwight L. Moody I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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