We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost. You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car.
Bill MaherStichwörter: politics patriotism environment war-on-terror gas-prices
For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.
Bill MaherStichwörter: humor patriotism 9-11 war-on-terror
Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
Bill MaherStichwörter: freedom patriotism america burning-flags
Sticking one's head in the sand is a deep human impulse. Like when you feel some kind of bump or growth on the back of your neck, and your heart jumps, because, Christ, that could be something bad, I should see a doctor right away. But then you don't, because it's too scary, and what if they do find something, and...and besides: maybe it will just go away!
Bill MaherWhen the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play.
Bill MaherStichwörter: 9-11 war-on-terror pentagon
America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.
Bill MaherI don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.
Bill MaherWe're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.
Bill MaherStichwörter: politics america complacency
Bloodless revolutions are rare.
Bill MaherStichwörter: war-on-terror
Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about that.
The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anything, or else you're lacking faith.
Stichwörter: humor religion bible logic rationality biblical-literalism literalism
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