Bible thumpers Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

— Mason Cooley

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think,…

— Jennifer Stone

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We…

— Julian Baggini

In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant…

— David James Duncan

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all…

— Isaac Asimov

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that…

— Neale Donald Walsch

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

— Haki R. Madhubuti

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

— Mary Catherwood

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

— Alan Watts

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that…

— Elbert Hubbard

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in…

— Joseph Addison