Quotes by Superstitions There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous. George MacDonald superstitions belief men I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition. Gerry Spence superstitions adventure death I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. Gil Gerard saying-too-much superstitions want A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions. Gertrude Atherton bags superstitions littles Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. George Santayana superstitions imagination men You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. George Bernard Shaw superstitions medicine taken The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. George Carlin superstitions religious ideas At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. Gore Vidal public-opinion superstitions prejudice The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing superstitions doe may The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing bigotry superstitions loses The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. Graham Joyce modern superstitions Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Gretchen Rubin superstitions connections outcomes Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. Gustave Herve brutal patriotism superstitions We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. Friedrich Nietzsche superstitions sin belief 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 superstitions littles men Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. Hal Clement superstitions tests speculation I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet. Harriet Martineau superstitions next atheism Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible. Havelock Ellis superstitions alcohol men The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots. H. L. Mencken superstitions idiot belief The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. Gilbert K. Chesterton superstitions liberty mean «1234567891011»
