Demonstrably Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple…
— Robert D. Putnam
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As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation…
— John Bates Clark
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Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'
— John Oliver
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All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.
— Ibn Warraq
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People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you…
— L. Neil Smith
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
— John D. MacDonald
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[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
— E. O. Wilson
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As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we…
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I…
— Paul Krugman
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And last, we must bear in mind that the relationships between perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are neither automatic nor consistent. In many cases they…
— Hanne Blank
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The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even…
— Brian Cox
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I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible. I…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?
— Charles Templeton
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
— Desmond Tutu
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The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
— Francis Spufford
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as…
— Tom Wicker
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued…
— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is…
— Richard Dawkins
Who Wrote These Demonstrably Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Demonstrably Quotes as follows: