I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
More Quotes by Julian Baggini
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.