Atheism Quote by Lincoln Steffens Download Open image “The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.” — Lincoln Steffens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Community Fear Greater Greater Lies Inspirational Lies Lies Requires Love Lying Politer Society Rage Society Greater
“polite society is just a paper thin veil that masks the true animal nature of man”. ” — Dirk Patton Copy Share Image
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder.… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .” — Alan Roger Currie Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain… You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from… — Dave Rodgers Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
