"There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours."

-- Richard Rorty

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Silly Quotes

“The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance.”
“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”
“For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; itâ€™s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you canâ€™t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people wonâ€™t believe it ever happened.”
“I definitely would love to transition into being more of a writer at some point in my career. I love playing shows and traveling, but I also love writing for other people, and that's something I'm investing my time in more when I'm home.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.”

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