"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
— John Stuart Mill

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively."
— Jon Stewart

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval."
— Peter Singer

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
— John Stuart Mill

"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."
— Woody Allen

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me"
— Hunter S. Thompson