Superstitions Quotes

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The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be.… — Lenny Bruce
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the… — Emma Goldman
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . .… — Carlton J. H. Hayes
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire.… — Earl Nightingale
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with… — Victor Hugo
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The… — Albert Einstein
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. — Christopher Hitchens
I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and… — Bruce Springsteen
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.… — Peter Drucker
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two… — Edward Abbey
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized… — Romain Rolland
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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