"An Objectivist is either a former Jew, or else he wishes he was" - someone who asked to be Anonymous
"Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy." - Anonymous
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations." - John Adams
"[A] majority of Jews would vote Democratic even if Yasser Arafat and Osama bin Laden were at the top of the ticket." - Edward Alexander
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished." - Muslim religious edict, 1993, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia
"Bombs don't kill people, *religious fundamentalists* wearing bombs kill people." - Asparagirl
"Beware of the Fighting Jew - he who commands the few against the many. He loves books, loves liberty, and hates war. But he is prepared to fight for liberty. And if you ever raise a hand against this people, know this: The Fighting Jew is fearless, his heart is of steel, his hands are trained for war and his fingers for battle." - Menachem Begin
"I find condescending self-righteous liberals so much more annoying than Christian Fundamentalists that, even though I generally agree with the substance of attacks of Fundamentalists, I'm likely to side with the Christians because the sentiments behind the attacks are far more repugnant than any Christian beliefs." - Boffo
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill
"The country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States." - Ann Coulter
"Yet the Times' Friedman, in a commonplace formulation, sniffs that ethnic profiling is not "civilized" and then gratuitously attacks "religious fundamentalists of any stripe." I don't know. Amish extremists have been rather quiescent lately. If all this carnage and murder had been executed by anti-abortion extremists rather than Muslim extremists, it is unlikely that Friedman would be pussyfooting around the issue by referring to the culprits as "political extremists of any stripe." The refusal to make a connection between Muslim extremists and unending violence by Muslim extremists borders on psychopathological disturbance. Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening." - Ann Coulter
"Islam as a religion is not the problem, and we will not try to eliminate Islam as a religion. But Islam as a political movement, and a form of government, and a legal system cannot be tolerated, because it won't tolerate us." - Steven Den Beste
"Islamic culture continues to be an object lesson for the moral bankruptcy of multiculturalism. The basic idea is that other cultures may well be far different than ours, but they're equally valid and we have no right to judge them or their people by our own standards. That's an abdication, and the problem is that now that we are actually beginning to watch what is happening in places where Islam actually gains political power, it's invariably really, really ugly. It's entirely possible that strains of Islam exist which are tolerant, peaceful and valuable, but Islamism as a political movement is ultimately cruel and barbarous. It's bad enough that they want to execute women for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. But multiculturalism faces a profound contradiction of having to defend the validity of Islam's own rejection of any concept of multiculturalism. Anywhere that Islam assumes political control, it ruthlessly stamps out all dissent, all diversity, and in particular any semblance of religious freedom, and does so using the harshest possible methods." - Steven Den Beste
"Reality is what you smack into after you make a leap of faith." - Michael "Jaffo" Duff
"I love my pagan troll gods from the fjiords" - Beth Farnstrom
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"I don't care what denomination you belong to, as long as you're ashamed of it." - Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
"I have many objections to the philosophy of Christ. I do not believe in returning good for evil. I believe in returning justice for evil. I do not believe that I can put a man under a moral obligation to do me a favor by doing him a wrong. The doctrine of non-resistance is to me absurd. The right should be defended and the wrong resisted. Goodness should have the right to protect itself. Neither do I believe in decrying this world. We should not say, "Thou fool," to the man who works for those he loves. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth a crime." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them." - Thomas Jefferson, referring to reaction over his Presidential administration in which absolutely no religious proclamations were issued.
"And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter." - Thomas Jefferson
"There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live." - Sinclair Lewis
"Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious." - Bill Maher
"Let's assume there was a God. I don't want this to turn into a religious debate, so I'll disregard dinosaurs, the fact that the world was covered only in water for millions of years, and evidence of microorganisms on other planets for the sake of argument. If there is a God, let's assume there is a heaven. Assuming that, I'll bet any amount of money that every fucker up there plays [Mario Kart 64] 24 hours a day." - Matt, XE
"Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the only place in the Middle East that has no oil!" - Golda Meir
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon
"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." - P.J. O'Rourke
"I recall during the Gulf War -- the previous one -- Clovis Maksoud, an American Arab leader said in an interview something to the effect that it wasn't fair to judge Muslims by the standards of the 20th century. I remember thinking, 'Hmm, is that supposed to be a plea for tolerance or an admission of guilt?'" - David D. Perlmutter
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." - Carl Edward Sagan
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
"So if Jews are JAPs, and Muslims are MAPs, then do we get to refer to Christians as CRAPs?" - Evan Sandhaus
"I'd like to offer an uncharacteristic (for me) defense of America's religious jackasses. While their tireless efforts to remove porn from hotel rooms, ban abortion, and pick on homos are annoying in the extreme, their actions seem positively benign when compared to, say, the actions of Saudi Arabia's religious jackasses. At least our jackasses are only pressuring hotel chains to stop making porn available to horny businessmen. They're not crashing airplanes into Marriott and Hilton hotel towers." - Dan Savage
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
"Islam is unique among world religions in having a developed doctrine, tradition, theology, and legal superstructure mandating warfare against non-Muslims. This does not that all Muslims are violent or terrorist, but it is a key justification used by radical Muslims to recruit and motivate terrorists." - Robert Spencer
"It’s ironic. If you don’t say Islam is a religion of peace, they will kill you" - Robert Spencer
"If Islam is a religion of peace, it seems at least some Christians view their faith as a religion of appeasement." - James Taranto
"If pigs had wings, Islamic fanatics would fly them into buildings" - James Taranto
"Islam, as we keep hearing, is a religion of peace. And if you dare to criticize or make light of it, may you rest in peace." - James Taranto
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax-- YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!" - Walter, The Big Lebowski
"The Jews are a frightened people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have broken down their nerves." - Israel Zangwill
"So great is the ambiguity resulting from the defectiveness of the Arabic script [in the Qur'an] that even after pointed texts appeared it was necessary to borrow (perhaps from the Arameans) a system for indicating the short vowels in the sacred text. That this was understood to be of extreme theological importance can be inferred from the fact that today the Qur’an is practically the only book in which these vowel marks are employed — apart from Arabic language textbooks and dictionaries used to teach the throat disease believed by pious Muslims to be the language in which the creator of the universe speaks." - Frank R. Zindler, "An Atheists Guide to Mohammedanism"