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“Le Dieu des déistes est sûrement un progrès par rapport au monstre de la Bible. Malheureusement il n'y a pas beaucoup plus de chances qu'il existe, ou qu'il ait jamais existé. Dans l'une ou l'autre de ses formes, l'hypothèse de Dieu est inutile.”

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), 2006

“N'est-ce pas toujours une forme de maltraitance des enfants que de leur accoler des étiquettes de croyance auxquelles ils n'ont pas réfléchi parce qu'ils sont trop jeunes? Pourtant, cette habitude persiste encore à ce jour, et elle n'est pratiquement jamais remise en question. […] Notre société, y compris le secteur non religieux, a admis l'idée grotesque qu'il est bien normal d'endoctriner les tout petits enfants dans la religion de leurs parents et de leur coller des étiquettes religieuse - « enfant catholique », « enfant protestant », « enfant juif », « enfant musulman », etc. - mais pas des étiquettes d'un autre ordre, pourtant comparables : pas d'enfants conservateurs, libéraux, républicains ou démocrates. […] Un enfant n'est pas un enfant chrétien, ce n'est pas un enfant musulman, mais un enfant de parents chrétiens ou un enfant de parents musulmans.”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“Aussi longtemps que nous acceptons le principe que la foi religieuse doit être respectée simplement parce que c'est la foi religieuse, il est difficile de refuser ce respect à la foi d'Ousama ben Laden et des auteurs d'attentats suicides. L'alternative, si évidente qu'il est inutile d'en souligner l'urgence, est d'abandonner le principe du respect automatique de la foi religieuse. C'est une raison pour laquelle je fais l'impossible pour mettre les gens en garde contre la foi elle-même, et pas seulement contre la prétendue foi « extrémiste .»”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

S'ils ne sont pas extrémistes en soi, les enseignements de la religion « modérée » sont une invitation ouverte à l'extrémisme.
Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“La sélection naturelle construit le cerveau de l'enfant en lui donnant une tendance à croire tout ce que lui disent ses parents et les anciens de la tribu. Cette obéissance en toute confiance est précieuse pour la survie au même titre que le guidage sur la lune pour le papillon de nuit. Mais le revers de l'obéissance en toute confiance est la crédulité aveugle. Son produit dérivé inévitable est la vulnérabilité aux infections par les virus de l'esprit.”

Richard Dawkins

), 2006

“On peut dire que, de toutes les œuvres de fiction, le Dieu de la Bible est le personnage le plus déplaisant : jaloux et fier de l'être, il est impitoyable, injuste et tracassier dans son obsession de tout régenter; adepte du nettoyage ethnique, c'est un revanchard assoiffé de sang; tyran lunatique et malveillant, ce misogyne homophobe, raciste, pestilentiel, mégalomane et sadomasochiste pratique l'infanticide, le génocide et le « filicide .»”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“Imaginez, avec John Lennon, un monde sans religion… Pas de bombes suicides, pas de 11 septembre, pas de croisades, pas de chasses aux sorcières, pas de Conspiration des poudres, pas de partition de l'Inde, pas de guerres israélo-palestiniennes, pas de massacres de musulmans serbo-croates, pas de persécutions de juifs, pas de « troubles » en Irlande du Nord, pas de « crimes d'honneur », pas de télévangélistes au brushing avantageux et au costume tape-à-l'œil. Imaginez, pas de Talibans pour dynamiter les statues anciennes, pas de décapitations publiques des blasphémateurs, pas de femmes flagellées pour avoir montré une infime parcelle de peau…”

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), 2006

“Le panthéisme est de l'athéisme enjolivé, le déisme est du théisme dilué.”

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), 2006

“Nous allons mourir, et cela fait de nous les veinards. La plupart des gens ne mourront jamais parce qu’il ne naîtront jamais. Les personnes potentielles qui auraient pu être là à ma place mais en fait ne verront jamais la lumière du jour sont plus nombreuses que les grains de sable du Sahara. Ces fantômes non nés comprennent certainement des poètes plus grands que Keats, des scientifiques plus grands que Newton. Nous savons cela parce que l’ensemble des personnes possibles permises par notre ADN dépassent si massivement l’ensemble des personnes réelles. En dépit de ces probabilités stupéfiantes c’est vous et moi, dans notre banalité, qui sommes là. Nous les quelques privilégiés qui avons gagné la loterie de la vie contre toutes les probabilités, comment osons-nous nous plaindre de notre inévitable retour à cet état précédent dont la majorité d’entre nous ne s’éveillera jamais?”

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Les Mystères de l'arc-en-ciel (Unweaving the Rainbow), 1998

Richard Dawkins: Citations en anglais

“Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/494012589828218881 (), quoted in Lizzie Dearden, " Richard Dawkins tweets: 'Date rape is bad, stranger rape is worse' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-says-date-rape-is-bad-stranger-rape-is-worse-on-twitter-9634572.html", The Independent ()
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“Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.”

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Richard Dawkins livre A Devil's Chaplain

"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”

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As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7936221/Richard-Dawkins-causes-outcry-after-likening-the-burka-to-a-bin-liner.html (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.

“(Spectrum level 6) I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 73

“Think about the two qualities that a virus, or any sort of parasitic replicator, demands of a friendly medium, the two qualities that make cellular machinery so friendly towards parasitic DNA, and that make computers so friendly towards computer viruses. These qualities are, firstly, a readiness to replicate information accurately, perhaps with some mistakes that are subsequently reproduced accurately; and, secondly, a readiness to obey instructions encoded in the information so replicated.”

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Richard Dawkins livre Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“Amusingly, it [astrology] falls foul of our modern taboo against lazy stereotyping. How would we react if a newspaper published a daily column that read something like this: "Germans: It is in your nature to be hard-working and methodical, which should serve you well at work today. In your personal relationships, especially this evening, you will need to curb your natural tendency to obey orders. Chinese: Inscrutability has many advantages, but it may be your undoing today. British: Your stiff upper lip may serve you well in business dealings, but try to relax and let yourself go in your social life.”

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The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 0:05:54ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“The absolute morality that a religious person might profess would include what, stoning people for adultery, death for apostasy, punishment for breaking the Sabbath. These are all things which are religiously based absolute moralities. I don’t think I want an absolute morality. I think I want a morality that is thought out, reasoned, argued, discussed and based upon, I’d almost say, intelligent design [pun intended]. Can we not design our society, which has the sort of morality, the sort of society that we want to live in – if you actually look at the moralities that are accepted among modern people, among 21st century people, we don’t believe in slavery anymore. We believe in equality of women. We believe in being gentle. We believe in being kind to animals. These are all things which are entirely recent. They have very little basis in Biblical or Quranic scripture. They are things that have developed over historical time through a consensus of reasoning, of sober discussion, argument, legal theory, political and moral philosophy. These do not come from religion. To the extent that you can find the good bits in religious scriptures, you have to cherry pick. You search your way through the Bible or the Quran and you find the occasional verse that is an acceptable profession of morality and you say, ‘Look at that. That’s religion,’ and you leave out all the horrible bits and you say, ‘Oh, we don’t believe that anymore. We’ve grown out of that.’ Well, of course we’ve grown out it. We’ve grown out of it because of secular moral philosophy and rational discussion.”

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Richard Dawkins-George Pell Q&A (2012)

“… the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria … All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“But if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as "these are not one-dimensional abilities" apply equally to cows, horses and dogs and never stopped anybody in practice. I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?”

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Richard Dawkins, From the Afterword, The Herald Scotland, (November 20, 2006) http://www.heraldscotland.com/from-the-afterword-1.836155

“But it is we that choose to divide animals up into discontinuous species. On the evolutionary view of life there must have been intermediates, even though, conveniently for our naming rituals, they are usually extinct.”

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Richard Dawkins livre A Devil's Chaplain

"Gaps in the Mind"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously. A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.”

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Richard Dawkins livre A Devil's Chaplain

quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“On natural selection: "Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance."”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 146

“I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful. Darwinism is the differential survival of self-replicating genes in a gene pool, usually as manifested by individual behaviour, morphology, and phenotypes. Group selection of any kind is not Darwinism as Darwin understood it nor as I understand it. There is a very vague analogy between group selection and conquest of a nation by another nation, but I don't think it's a very helpful analogy. So I would prefer not to invoke Darwinian language for that kind of historical interpretation.”

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Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)

“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Blind Watchmaker

Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 5)

“SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.”

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In 2014, as quoted in The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement (2015), Stephen LeDrew

“Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.”

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Gordy Slack, "The Atheist" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index_np.html (), Salon.com

“As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.”

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“No doubt some of your cousins and great-uncles died in childhood, but not a single one of your ancestors did. Ancestors just don't die young!”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 3. Immortal Coils

“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can.”

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“And when we look closely, we find a system of morals which any civilised person today should surely find poisonous.”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The four Gospels that made it into the official canon were chosen, more or less arbitrarily, out of a larger sample of at least a dozen … The gospels that didn't make it were omitted by those ecclesiastics perhaps because they included stories that were even more embarrassingly implausible than those in the four canonical ones.”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 121

“I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself. ”

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Regarding his 1989 statement "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)." (see above)