"When the search for truth is confused with……" — Alston Chase
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power"
More Advocacy Quotes
- It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop… — Thomas Carlyle
- I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing… — Michael Chertoff
- America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from… — Michael Denton
- And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and… — Felix Mendelssohn
- Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the… — C. Everett Koop
- In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation… — Richard Lindzen
- It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the… — Cybill Shepherd
- Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they… — Rainer Maria Rilke
- The European Union and environmental advocacy groups use global warming hysteria to advance their own special agendas. The European Union… — Jay H. Lehr
- Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract… — Stewart Udall
- The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend… — Rebecca Solnit