Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil