9 Quotes by Penn Jillette about believe

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    I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

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    Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate.

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    I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

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    In all honesty, I believe we're fair, and incredibly biased. These are two different things. On our show there are no ambushes.

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    I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

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    I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.

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    Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

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    I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.

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    I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

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