The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.