458 Quotes by Penn Jillette


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    God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

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    Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.

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    Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it’s getting worse.

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    My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don’t know what’s best for other people.

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    Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That’s not morality, that’s sucking up.

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    Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.

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    Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It’s the absence of religion, and that’s a wonderful thing.

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