Flags and anthems are unimportant. They are just symbols. You need to respect and fight for democratic institutions, or you will lose everything, flags and anthems included.
John Laurie
May 25, 2017
Racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Chris Crutcher
May 13, 2017
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
May 1, 2017
To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P.J. O'Rourke
April 26, 2017
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein
April 15, 2017
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
Isaac Asimov
April 8, 2017
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
April 8, 2017
If my child had prejudice in his head, I’d be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
March 28, 2017
If we don’t stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.
Irene Dunne
March 24, 2017
The longer a politician is in office, the more susceptible they are to corruption.