For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they… — Sanal Edamaruku Copy Share Image
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“If decorum allowed, she would take tea at the hotel. Once inside, she might run into a rich northern gentleman who had… — Karen Cecil Smith Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern,… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
