It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
SAM HARRISIt is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
SAM HARRISThe difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
SAM HARRISWhat would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
SAM HARRISFaith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
SAM HARRISAs an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
SAM HARRISSome propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.
SAM HARRISEveryone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
SAM HARRISReligious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
SAM HARRISWe have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
SAM HARRISThe freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
SAM HARRISAs a man believes, so he will act.
SAM HARRISValues reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
SAM HARRISIf someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
SAM HARRISThe problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
SAM HARRISPeople who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
SAM HARRISA puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
SAM HARRIS