“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbo...” — Richard Dawkins Quote

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

“I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.”

“Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.”

“People like to trace their ancestry.”

“A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'”

“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree.”

“If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.”

“One writes fables in periods of oppression.”

“What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.”

“I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.”

“All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.”

“Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.”