Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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

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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

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