People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
Bill Clinton
July 31, 2017
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
Johanna 'Hannah' Arendt
July 25, 2017
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
July 18, 2017
The problem isn’t that he [Trump] does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.
George F. Will
July 9, 2017
We are all complicit in anthropogenic climate change and that is why denial of it is so popular, because denialism is a way to avoid uncomfortable truths.
John Laurie
July 2, 2017
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
June 24, 2017
You know why conservatives hammer those on benefits so mercilessly? It is because they think those people are like them; venal, greedy and duplicitous.
John Laurie
June 15, 2017
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
June 10, 2017
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and very nearly zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Sam Harris
June 4, 2017
There can be no truce between science and religion.
