Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [281-300] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.~ Malcolm Muggeridge We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.~ Edward R. Murrow I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.~ Edward R. Murrow The goal of legalizing drugs is to bring them under effective legal control. If it were legal to produce and distribute drugs, legitimate businessmen would enter the business. There would be less need for violence and corruption since the industry would have access to the courts. And, instead of absorbing tax dollars as targets of expensive enforcement efforts, the drug sellers might begin to pay taxes. So, legalization might well solve the organized crime aspects of the drug trafficking problem. On average, drug use under legalization might not be as destructive to users and to society as under the current prohibition, because drugs would be less expensive, purer, and more conveniently available.~ National Institute of Justice Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.~ Reinhold Niebuhr Belief means not wanting to know what is true.~ Friedrich Nietzsche We are human and our lot is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.~ Novalis As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.~ J. Robert Oppenheimer I am I plus my circumstances.~ José Ortega y Gasset At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.~ George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.~ George Orwell Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.~ Ovid I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.~ Thomas Paine Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.~ Thomas Paine Time makes more converts than reason.~ Thomas Paine Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.~ Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine He who dares not offend cannot be honest.~ Thomas Paine The most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.~ Thomas Paine Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print