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5. “Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
Thomas Jefferson
Truth, Error, Debate, Freedom, Intellectual Discourse
17. “Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”” Isaac Asimov Religion Criticism, Belief Irony, Conflict, Tolerance, Humor, Debate
19. “Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.” George Bernard Shaw English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction
20. “In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.” George Bernard Shaw Socialism Capitalism, Property Debate, Socialism, Capitalism, Property, Debate
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5. “Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
Thomas Jefferson Truth, Error, Debate, Freedom, Intellectual Discourse
17. “Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?””
Isaac Asimov Religion Criticism, Belief Irony, Conflict, Tolerance, Humor, Debate
19. “Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.”
George Bernard Shaw English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction
20. “In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.”
George Bernard Shaw Socialism Capitalism, Property Debate, Socialism, Capitalism, Property, Debate
