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“Mila was kneeling before her, her focus devoted utterly to Cissie’s stockings and their agonisingly slow descent down her legs, deft fingers at her ankles carefully freeing her from her shoes. The gaze she turned on Cissie’s panties was unholy – and then Cissie was naked with just the breeze shivering across her skin.”
― Jo Havens, Once in Berlin

“[God is] a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser , a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, phillicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Individual atheists may do evil things but they don’t do evil things in the name of atheism.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
― George Scialabba

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus