Asserted Quotes
72 quotes by 64 authors
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that…
— Tony Campolo
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter…
— Wilfred Trotter
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In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that the experimental results…
— Karl Popper
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It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there…
— Theodor Schwann
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Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since with equal clarity He asserted:…
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither…
— Roy Crowson
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When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the…
— John Drinkwater
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered…
— John L. DeWitt
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It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this…
— Karl Popper
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This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing…
— Philip Alston
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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human…
— Gerrit Smith
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In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become…
— Max Stirner
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