Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.