"I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly."

-- H. Rider Haggard

#Men Quotes #Littles Quotes #Superstitions Quotes

“Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!”
“When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.”
“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”
“I come from a long line of generations!”
“Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.”
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
“It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.”

Source : Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.130, Cambridge University Press
“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.”

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