Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind... Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.~ Ambrose Bierce The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.~ Steve Biko The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.~ Alan Bloom You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.~ William Boetcker I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Reality is not always probable, or likely.~ Jorge Luis Borges Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.~ James Boswell All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].~ Justice William J. Brennan Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.~ Norman O. Brown What is right and what is practicable are two different things.~ James Buchanan Now it is one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn’t consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.~ Buddha Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.~ Buddha It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther Burbank Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.~ Frank Gelett Burgess In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.~ Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.~ Edmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.~ Edmund Burke Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print