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- Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
- My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any…
- Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing…
- 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…
- No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or…
- The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible…
- Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.
- I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.
- I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
- [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the…
- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
- The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
- It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. — Lance Armstrong
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to… — Russell Baker
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest… — Bob Beauprez
- It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
- Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important… — Warren G. Bennis
- There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths. — Annie Besant