Robert Morrison MacIver famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.

  • Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  • I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  • A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  • Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  • The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  • The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  • Public opinion in this country is everything.

  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  • Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.