1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I love words.

God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

People say I'm shrill and strident.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.