Penn Jillette Quotes

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Penn Jillette

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FearHopeReligionRewardMorality

We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.

Jessie Buckley

WrongDangerousAbilityThingsWhich

I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way - where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball - we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that.

Jerry Reinsdorf

TeamGrowing UpBasketballWinning

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PeaceLiesPeaks

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Jeremy Rifkin

HealthCultureEnvironmentalDeep

I think it's very important to women what they want to watch. They're looking all the time to the red carpet to see what to wear, and it sets off all sorts of trends.

Jenny Packham

WomenTimeRedLookingThinkWant

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Robert Kraft

JealousyEnvyDiseasesIncurable

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

Matt Mullenweg

BeautyStartSomeoneYouRightUp

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

John W. Foster

DecisionManSaidNeverWithout

I think the discussion of, you know, can we put a cap on wealth creation and distribution - it's something that should be at the heart of every Christian that is a capitalist. Is, what is the purpose I'm doing with this wealth?

Steve Bannon

HeartPurposeThinkChristianDoing

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Steven Pinker

FoodAnimalThinkPlantYouBody

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Russell Page

ImaginationEyeFreeBuildOwnOnly

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

Lou Holtz

DecisionPeopleMeYouBadCountry

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