The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable… — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety.… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable - when the fatal iron gates are about to close… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
