Absurdities Atrocities Quotes & Sayings

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy. — David Plotz

It is evident that most of what we think of as our medieval ancestors' barbaric practices were based on mistaken beliefs about how the laws of nature actually operate. If you - and everyone around you, including ecclesiastical and political authorities - truly believe that witches cause disease, crop failures, sickness, catastrophes, and accidents, then it is not only a rational act to burn witches, it is also a moral duty. This is what Voltaire meant when he wrote that people who believe absurdities are more likely to commit atrocities. — Michael Shermer

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life. — Meghna Pant

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence. — Iman

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. — Voltaire

People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities. — Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally. — Sibel Edmonds

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business. — Jack Abramoff

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio. — Jim Beaver

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. — Richard Dawkins

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. — Voltaire

A blind acceptance of absurdities leads to the undertaking of atrocities. — Margo Kelly

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. — Douglas Alexander

To paraphrase Voltaire: if they can make you believe in their absurdities, they can make you commit their atrocities. — Voltaire

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: 'Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities. — Martin Gardner

With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the Sagacity, and the Perseverance, of the Villain of the Story outweighed all his absurdities and all his Atrocities with Sir Edward. With him, such Conduct was Genius, Fire and Feeling. It interested and inflamed him; and he was always more anxious for its Success and mourned over its Discomfitures with more Tenderness than could ever have been contemplated by the Authors. — Jane Austen

An affirmation to say everyday:
The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way. — Joyce Meyer

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky. — Zora Neale Hurston