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William Kingdon Clifford

"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."

Life

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William Kingdon Clifford
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."

Belief

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William Kingdon Clifford
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."

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William Kingdon Clifford
"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

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