The New Atheists do not believe in God, but they have a strong belief in the philosophy of materialism. Materialists believe that the entire universe is unconscious, made up of mindless matter, governed by impersonal mathematical laws. Nature has no design or purpose. Evolution is a result of the interplay of blind chance and physical necessity. Consciousness is confined to the insides of heads and only exists inside brains. God, angels and spirits are ideas in human minds: hence they are inside human brains. They have no independent existence 'out there'.

I think that as a society, we suffer from what I like to call P.U.D.: Pro-Uniformity Disorder. Or, affectionately, “pud”.

In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.

The function of the state is to take public money and put it in the hands of private interest.

We cannot say goodbye to a problem until at first we have said hello.

My ancestors resisted and survived what must have seemed like an apocalyptic reality of occupation and subjugation in a context where they had few choices....They resisted by taking the seeds of our culture and political systems and packing them away, so that one day another generation of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg might be able to plant today.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

You cannot discover an inhabited land. Otherwise I could cross the Atlantic and ‘discover’ England.