Richard Dawkins Quotes About Clarity

Quotes about: Clarity

• I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Wish, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

• Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arrogance, Clarity, Mistaken

• Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mistake, Thinking, Talking

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

• Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Confusion, Sound

  "Richard Dawkins' Hate Mail". Interview with Rowan Hooper, www.slate.com. December 28, 2013.

• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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