Claims Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen Download Open image “If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.” — Morris Raphael Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claims Evil Religion
“...evil is not always opposed to religion. Indeed, when evil appropriates the ideals and institutions of religion, the results are far more damaging than… — Bill Ellis Copy Share Image
Each religion can be made a force for good or for evil by the people who practice it. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
