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ignorance religion tyranny
...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... Benjamin Franklin
ignorance paying penalty
There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose. Edwards Deming
ignorance men world
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? William Wilberforce
ignorance unique men
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man. Anton LaVey
ignorance character games
One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most. Rob Riggle
ignorance people enough
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. Richard P. Feynman
ignorance knowing doubt
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.
ignorance doubt quality
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
ignorance order doubt
We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.
religions standard wants
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Matt Stone
religion mystery inventing-things
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
religion conservative should
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. Richard John Neuhaus
religion atheism cosmos
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. Richard Dawkins
religion atheism natural
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
religion atheism morality
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
religion definitions interpretation
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others. Reza Aslan
religion deities dissolution
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. William Robertson Smith
religion should evidence
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. William J. Clinton
tyranny inferiors
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. Napoleon Bonaparte
tyranny all-time assured
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. Albert Einstein
tyranny-of-the-majority shields anonymity
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. John Paul Stevens