The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll… — Amy Alkon Copy Share Image
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
In my opinion I think there's a difference between skepticism and cynicism; I tend to avoid cynicism because I feel it can… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt… — Jules Ladoumegue Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I cannot wait for the day I am in the career I have always dreamt of being in. All of the people… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a certainty in life. Unknown is well-known in life. Uncertainty and unknown gives space for the impossible to become possible.… — Kitty Downer Copy Share Image
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way… — Miriam Gershow Copy Share Image
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow?… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present:… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our skepticism only in the face of rock-solid evidence. Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. Where we are ignorant,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our Betty Cooper is still the girl next door - she literally lives next to Archie. And she's the blonde all-American girl;… — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that to determine the precise location of a particle will only speed up the particle. The same goes… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
