Bob Altemeyer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.
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Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.
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I have never said authoritarians are pathological
-- Bob Altemeyer
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Could man be drunk for ever    With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning    And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober    And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten    Their hands upon their hearts.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths,
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You forget, darling, I am the local psychopath." ~Clayton Danvers, Bitten
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Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'
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As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
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