You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
