In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'd like to see atheism represented not only as an intelligent choice, but common sense. It shouldn't take years of study to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“A theist can't empirically prove that God exists but he believes in God because no one can allegedly disprove God's existence. By… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An atheist is merely someone who doesn't believe in god/s. Atheism matters to me because I see what religion does to people,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
One of the great things about having your own invisible god is you can make him/her/it as big and grand as your… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God… — Ion Keith-Falconer Copy Share Image
Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way… — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image