525 Quotes by Sam Harris

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

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.

Needless to say, this would be an unthinkable crime—as it would kill tens of millions of innocent civilians in a single day—but it may be the only course of action available to us, given what Islamists believe

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.