You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from… - Richard Dawkins

" "
You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can get away with saying, ‘It violates my freedom of religion.’ What, when you think about it, is the difference? Yet again, religion trumps all.

Richard Dawkins

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is known for his advocacy of atheism.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Clinton Richard Dawkins

Alternative Names: C. Dawkins • C. Richard Dawkins • Clinton Dawkins • CR Dawkins • R. Dawkins

All quotes from Richard Dawkins Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Richard Dawkins:

Carl Sagan Sam Harris Daniel Dennett Bertrand Russell Stephen Jay Gould

Additional quotes by Richard Dawkins

With respect to those meanings of "human" that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

When I tweet on politics, even if I merely post a url, I get many replies like “Stick to science. Politics is not your field.” Which field, then, does qualify one to hold a political opinion? Are scientists specifically disqualified from thinking & caring about the world?

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying, so the brain is a collection of organs (or 'modules') for dealing with a set of specialist data-processing needs.

You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can get away with say… - Richard Dawkins

About Richard Dawkins

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Richard Dawkins

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI