Purport Quotes

28 quotes by 24 authors

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me;… — Vanna Bonta
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from… — William J. Brennan
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence… — Sarah Palin
Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the… — Laurance Labadie
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this… — Lysander Spooner
Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,… — Stanley Krippner
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person… — Rosemary Mahoney
There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological… — John Corapi
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. — Brit Hume
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might be in order....Most… — Colin Robinson
Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in… — Colin Robinson
The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And… — Lysander Spooner
Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth. — Thomas Carlyle
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the… — John Dos Passos
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not… — Georges Lemaitre
Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from… — Ward Churchill
We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a… — Adam Savage

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