"This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods."

-- Julian Baggini

#Hero Quotes #Humility Quotes #Idols Quotes

“Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.”
“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
“Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.”
“What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.”
“Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.”

Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.
“Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.”
“How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.”

You may also like:

A.C. Grayling
Philosopher
Alain de Botton
Writer
Colin Ward
Writer
Jonathan Culler
Mark Rowlands
Writer
Mark Vernon
Writer
Simon Blackburn
Academic
Simon Critchley
Philosopher
Susan Blackmore
Writer