Conviction Quote by Christopher Lasch

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

“They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until…

— Alan Jacobs

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In today’s overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

“It is only as they are free, educated, enlightened, that they become a nuisance,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political…

— Joseph O'Neill

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming…

— Albert Einstein

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of…

— George Orwell