Sam Harris Quotes
As 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.
Quotes to Explore
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Let us have peace.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
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At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.
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As 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.
