"We will see that the greatest problem confronting……" — Sam Harris
"We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself."
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146 Quotes by Sam Harris
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin…
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More Accommodations Quotes
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one of 69 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
— Mark Twain
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
— Jean Piaget
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
— Ernst Haeckel
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By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal…
— Strom Thurmond
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We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to…
— Peter Corning
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
— Alan Furst
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