Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Celia Green

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Blaise Pascal

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Baruch Spinoza

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Andre Malraux

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Bertrand Russel

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety

Sen. Bray

Lifting the contribution limits, I just can't do that. It's a pretty deeply held belief of mine.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: 'He who builds on the people builds on mud

John Augustine

Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the election. Such strong consensus views often don't turn out to be a reality.

Don Garber

MLS reiterates its belief that the use of performance-enhancing substances compromises the integrity of professional sports,

Sathya Baba

Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.

Nicolas Davila

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.

Gary Bass

Mr. Pence has a belief the problem is solely rooted in spending issues. We think it's a mixture of spending and tax issues.

GenPeter Pace

My fundamental belief there is that we need to be careful as we do our business to ensure that we respect the principles of democracy, which include being open and honest with the press.

Al Lewis

If anything I consider myself an anarchist,

Buenaventura Durruti

I have been an Anarchist all my life,

Benjamin Tucker

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Utah Phillips

I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Michael Brown

There is a certain anarchist strain running through the Internet that questions, 'Why shouldn't everything belong to everyone?

Jan Morris

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

Lee Breuer

The fact of it is that the men's world was actually smaller than the women's world. I wanted to demonstrate this simply by showing the relative size of the feminine power. As much as these men boss these women around, as much as fate made them small to make their men big, the fact is that the whole control factor was illusory ? it just needed an anarchist like Nora to strike the match that burned up the illusion.

John Blair

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.

Sherman Austin

I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.