{"author":"Dave Champion","author_id":"Dave+Champion","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or even most Muslims - were violent, the world would already be in flames. Most people simply want to live their lives in peace, with some degree of material comfort. I find it bizarre - and disturbing - that so many Americans imagine that being a Muslim somehow trumps human nature and makes ordinary simple people want to rise up and kill everyone. That takes a special kind of stupid.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["death","hatred","islam","killing","material-comfort","minority","muslim","religion","stupidity","violence"],"id":8806,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["bible","creator","delusional","eclipse","superstition","superstitious"],"id":25203,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["equal-rights","freedom","liberty","responsibility"],"id":100690,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["america","americans","facts","fairy-tales","fairytales","lack-of-knowledge","myths"],"id":124570,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["affect-change","beliefs","challenge","control","deluded","nation","power","speech","speech-freedom","the-people","voting"],"id":129675,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of power has nothing to do with admired attributes such as intelligence and competence. The predominant characteristic of those who rise to the highest levels of power is a total disregard for the consequences – including death – that will befall thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions of human beings if it is deemed necessary to attain his (or her) goals. Generally speaking, it is this total disregard for humanity that has distinguished ‘rulers’ throughout history.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["competence","cruelty","humanity","intelligence-intelligent-men","power","powerful","rulers"],"id":219119,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.~ Dave Champion.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["bravery","capitulation","desire","intimidation","lesser-men","liberty"],"id":221312,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same 'reasoning' to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they'd soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child applying that kind of 'reasoning' on a homework assignment they'd wonder what the hell was the wrong with their child.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["beliefs","believers","bible","logic","reasoning","religion","unemployed"],"id":237749,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind ‘man-made global warming’ is denying the existence of atmosphere.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["atmosphere","bible","creator","existence-of-god","global-warming","god","junk-science","man-made-global-warming","myths"],"id":250689,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"},{"text":"Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.","author":"Dave Champion","tags":["communism","conservativism","evil","politics","socialism"],"id":276797,"author_id":"Dave+Champion"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}